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🙏 Anarchist (communist anarchist), interested in internetworking, cryptography and free software (free as in Freedom (and free beer)), network engineer/administrator.
Decentralized, transparent and free (yes, free as in Freedom) communication: E-mail (pretty cool, if you think about it :))
„No one can be free until everyone is“ - Erich MĂŒhsam
E-Mailvale (at) extcon (dot) kges2 (dot) net
Matrixhttps://matrix.to/#/@binotto:ext.enatlabs.com

The extent to which core linux projects are laying the groundwork for age verification is very concerning.

I understand why some believe they are compelled to do so, and why others feel that it may be better to implement the most minimal conforming implementation in the hopes of fending off something worse.

But the line must be drawn such that no threat can obligate an OS to collect/store personal information - without that freedom, we face an uphill fight to protect general purpose computing.

Auf den von #CDU und #SPD vorbereiteten und auch von Teilen der GrĂŒnen geforderten Alterkontrollzwang fĂŒr #SocialMedia folgen wenig ĂŒberraschend die ersten Begehrlichkeiten, dies auch auf Chatprogramme auszuweiten. Diese Entwicklung ist typisch fĂŒr Überwachungsvorhaben.

Unter dem Vorwand des Jugendschutzes folgt im weltweiten Gleichschritt die EinfĂŒhrung von Alters- und IdentitĂ€tskontrollzwĂ€ngen fĂŒr den Zugang zum Internet, was alle Nutzenden betreffen wĂŒrde und alle ausschließt, die ĂŒber entsprechende Nachweise nicht verfĂŒgen können oder wollen.

Als Ideallösung werden dafĂŒr von der herrschenden Politik vor allem "digitale IdentitĂ€ten" propagiert, die, wie im Falle der #EUDI sich aber auch als ĂŒberwachungskapitalistische Instrumente mit ausweitbaren Zwecken erweisen, wie unter anderem epicenter.works anhand vieler Belege aufzeigen.

Die #Alterskontrollen stellen zudem ein frĂŒhes Beispiel der Hauptzwecke von "digitalen IdentitĂ€ten" dar: Die digitale Kontrolle von ZugĂ€ngen, Verhalten und Wissens- und Informationsinfrastrukturen fĂŒr die weite Bevölkerung durch die Herrschenden.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/lehrerverband-skeptisch-ueber-moegliche-messenger-einschraenkung-104.html

Soziale Medien - Lehrerverband skeptisch ĂŒber mögliche Messenger-EinschrĂ€nkung

Der Deutsche Lehrerverband sieht eine Regulierung von Messengerdiensten wie WhatsApp fĂŒr Kinder und Jugendliche kritisch.

Die Nachrichten
For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Use Snowflake to give censorship the slip in places where Internet is blocked.

Snowflake allows you to connect to the Tor network in places where Tor is blocked by routing your connection through volunteer proxies located in uncensored countries.

Similar to VPNs, which help users bypass Internet censorship, Snowflake disguises your Internet activity as though you’re making a video or voice call, making you less detectable to Internet censors.

Start using Snowflake Now
--> https://snowflake.torproject.org/
via @torproject

#Iran #Solidarity #Zensur #Tor #Internet #Censorship

In defending free speech, privacy, and the right of young people to access truthful information about themselves, Rep. Leigh Finke was not radical—she was right. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

„Wir behaupten: niemand kann frei sein, solange es nicht alle sind. Die Freiheit aller aber und damit die Freiheit eines jeden setzt voraus die Gemeinschaft im Sozialismus.“

— Erich MĂŒhsam
Die Befreiung der Gesellschaft vom Staat

So when Trump decides to go get Greenland he’s just going to fly in and kidnap our prime minister. Great. You have a unscrupulous and clinically insane idiot elected as your president and he wants to own the world. I have absolutely no trust in any of you Americans whether you are pronounced MAGA or if you “didn’t vote for the guy”: Your elected president is a megalomaniac dictator and it’s your fucking responsibility to stop him.
The most succinct and accurate description of the Old Web I’ve seen to date.

The old web was decentralized:

- Newsgroups
- Personal Websites
- Bulletin board
- Email as a service, not a platform
- Internet relay chat (IRC)
- Early blogs

Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became consumers, trapped in algorithms, tracking, and enshittification. Revenue more important than people.

The Fediverse is a way back: no ads, no algorithms, no dark patterns. People first. A web worth reclaiming. And open source is the engine of this transformation.

Take back the web. Decentralize again đŸ’Ș Bring people to the Fediverse, promote open source and build federated services.

#TakeBackTheWeb #Decentralized #Fediverse #StopBigTech #OpenSource #DeGoogle #UnplugTrump

All the best to the poor guys at Lets Encrypt!

https://letsencrypt.status.io/

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