Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
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Re: Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
#2While I am as concerned about censorship as any other, what would Snowden's response have been if Trump had tweeted, "The time is now. Take no prisoners."
Re: Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
#3While I am as concerned about censorship as any other, what would Snowden's response have been if Trump had tweeted, "The time is now. Take no prisoners."
He didn't, though.
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#5I remain convinced that the only real solution to the twin problems of content moderation and freedom of speech rests in decentralized services (such as https://joinmastodon.org).
Re: Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
#6While I am as concerned about censorship as any other, what would Snowden's response have been if Trump had tweeted, "The time is now. Take no prisoners."
Among other things I imagine he'd point out that this is only a problem if you normalize police not doing their job. Things like this are only a problem when politicians decide they'll be more popular if they treat enforcing the laws of the land as a PR tactic instead of an obligation. The only reason rioters anywhere manage to do as much damage as they have is because every time there's a new BLM or Proud Boys rally every politician decides they'll look better if they yank the leash instead of letting the police enforce local laws.
Re: Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
#7I remain convinced that the only real solution to the twin problems of content moderation and freedom of speech rests in decentralized services (such as https://joinmastodon.org ).
Although I do agree, self-hosting Mastodon is not an easy job (I'm speaking from the perspective of a seasoned DevOps engineer). In addition, domain registrars and hosting companies can always shut you down. IPSF seems like the best direction of our efforts.
Re: Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
#8While I am as concerned about censorship as any other, what would Snowden's response have been if Trump had tweeted, "The time is now. Take no prisoners."
Isn’t a call to violence illegal?
Re: Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
#9While I am as concerned about censorship as any other, what would Snowden's response have been if Trump had tweeted, "The time is now. Take no prisoners."
It's a valid question, and brings up that whole question of "Where do you draw the line?"
We've already allowed the government to define what's legal and what isn't - which obviously differ from country to country.
Now it seems private companies also want to weigh in and define their own kinds of "allowed and not allowed".
I honestly do think we're damned if we do (allow FB to censor) and we're dammed if we don't (allow FB to censor)
Re: Edward Snowden: “Turning point in the battle for control”
#10I remain convinced that the only real solution to the twin problems of content moderation and freedom of speech rests in decentralized services (such as https://joinmastodon.org ).
Although I do agree, self-hosting Mastodon is not an easy job (I'm speaking from the perspective of a seasoned DevOps engineer). In addition, domain registrars and hosting companies can always shut you down. IPSF seems like the best direction of our efforts.
Is ISPF some kind of technology? I googled it, and the first few pages were all non-technical things. I searched for it on GitHub, and the first few pages had nothing to do with social media, P2P, distributed services, federation, nor anything else that could be relevant. Please provide a link if you can.