Neal Walfield

@nwalfield
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I work on Sequoia, a project to improve the OpenPGP ecosystem.

Antifa. Pro democracy. Pro positive and negative liberty.

Free speech is the power to criticize your government without fear of prosecution. It is a basic human right.

It is not about getting away with hurting your neighbor who never caused you any harm. Dignity is a human right.

That is also what "love your neighbor" is about.
It's just a sensible thing to do.

Do not tolerate hate speech.
There is no (need for a) "freedom to hate".

Be kind to one another. 🧡

https://www.hrw.org/topic/free-speech

Free Speech | Human Rights Watch

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In international law, access to information and free expression are two sides of the same coin, and both have found tremendous accelerators in the Internet and other forms of digital communication. At the same time, efforts to control speech and information are also accelerating, by both governments and private actors in the form of censorship, restrictions on access, and violent acts directed against those whose views or queries are seen as somehow dangerous or wrong. From our earliest days, when we were called The Fund for Free Expression, we have fought all forms of repression of speech, in all media, around the globe.

Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.

And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.

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The fact that we are *not* seeing wildly improving software all around us tells us everything we need to know.

There is no flourishing of value delivery, new product categories, more needs being satisfied better. It’s the opposite.

All we are seeing is decreases in quality, because 👏 code 👏 creation 👏 is not 👏 the problem.

Mafia Methoden im Internet & Mengenrabatt für Big Tech.

Heute hat unser Geschäftsführer @socialhack schon zum 3. Mal auf der Hauptversammlung der Deutschen Telekom klare Worte gefunden.

Sein Fazit: Die Telekom betreibt kaputtes Internet. Denn, die Leitung funktioniert nur, wenn an beiden Enden Geld fließt. Dienste, die nicht zahlen, werden ausgebremst. Das ist faktisch eine bezahlte Überholspur und ein Paradebeispiel für eine Verletzung der #Netzneutralität.

https://epicenter.works/content/telekom-hauptversammlung-2026-kaputtes-internet-und-wer-dafuer-zahlt

Telekom Hauptversammlung 2026: Kaputtes Internet – und wer dafür zahlt

Wir waren wieder als Sprecher des Dachverbands kritischer Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre auf der Hauptversammlung der Deutschen Telekom in Bonn. Unser Thema: Die Telekom kassiert doppelt – und bricht damit das Herzstück der Netzneutralität.

This is someting I wish I'd realized a lot sooner in life.
Crazy wie schnell das eintrifft wovor Habeck gewarnt hat...

Can we print this part of Microsoft's T&S as a leaflet and distribute at our university?

#AI

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse

One for the history books...
A special kind of stupidity