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Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by School-Cotton »

vladgur wrote: post #79
immibis wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think in these kinds of places they beat you dead for being the wrong skin colour if they're in a bad mood. I'm not sure how much your installed apps are relevant to the decision.

The "wrong skin color" is projection of western ideologies to Israel/Gaza conflict. Israelis have lighter skin Ashkenazi Jews, darker skin Mizrahi Jews(majority of hte jews in Israel now) and black Ethiopian jews. And of course 20%+ Arabs living in the country. Gazan Palestinians skin color varies as well, some have light skin, while others have darker skin tones. For example, does this woman have the right skin colo…

There are also black people in Gaza: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Palestinians

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by Sabinus »

cardanome wrote: post #92
mothballed wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If goons are killing you for having an app you don't need more apps, you need a gun.

You are right but as German if I made that point publicly in regards to Palestine I would get arrested. I am not exaggerating It is crazy how we have dehumanized Palestinians to the point that just hinting on the fact that they might have a right to resist it completely taboo. Like you don't have to agree with their methods but expecting them to do nothing while Israel murders them and the world looks away is such a…

I don't know about that, if settlers in the West Bank cop some violence then that's going to be considered well deserved.

Soldiers of 'a government' committing murder, rape and hostage taking on a music festival is going to earn you a bit of looking away to the consequences.

I don't expect them to do nothing, I expect them to come to a deal not sacrifice everything in an eternal and vain attempt to remove Israel from the map.

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by vladgur »

mef51 wrote: post #88
vladgur wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "wrong skin color" is projection of western ideologies to Israel/Gaza conflict. Israelis have lighter skin Ashkenazi Jews, darker skin Mizrahi Jews(majority of hte jews in Israel now) and black Ethiopian jews. And of course 20%+ Arabs living in the country. Gazan Palestinians skin color varies as well, some have light skin, while others have darker skin tones. For example, does this woman have the right skin colo…

The colonization of Gaza and the West Bank is entirely driven by western interests and ideology. Namely Zionism[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism

colonization? How many western zionists live in Gaza today?

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by ux266478 »

HumblyTossed wrote: post #68

I wish phones supported 802.11ah for things like this.

Most phone radios have RX/TX around the 40-30cm band already. It's just a question of having arbitrary send/receive, and I guarantee you the hardware is designed to make that as impossible as they can.

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by idkfasayer »

shevy-java wrote: post #91

I imagine Gaza may currently be one of the most difficult environments to write software code in. I happily admit that I would not be able to be productive in such an environment - my environment here in Europe is really quite sheltered (guess this also depends on where one lives; areas close to Russia may not feel as comfortable as in central Europe or Western Europe). The only distraction I have here is youtube mus…

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Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by tamimio »

IMO, I think the decentralized tech is the next big thing, and I probably mentioned it before, but the current state of hyper surveillance especially now with AI and digital ID, plus the privacy violating companies like flock and ring, will push people further into ditching centralized to decentralized, or technology completely!

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by zhengiszen »

Sabinus wrote: post #102
cardanome wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right but as German if I made that point publicly in regards to Palestine I would get arrested. I am not exaggerating It is crazy how we have dehumanized Palestinians to the point that just hinting on the fact that they might have a right to resist it completely taboo. Like you don't have to agree with their methods but expecting them to do nothing while Israel murders them and the world looks away is such a…

I don't know about that, if settlers in the West Bank cop some violence then that's going to be considered well deserved. Soldiers of 'a government' committing murder, rape and hostage taking on a music festival is going to earn you a bit of looking away to the consequences. I don't expect them to do nothing, I expect them to come to a deal not sacrifice everything in an eternal and vain attempt to remove Israel from…

What about a society glorifying children murder and rape on prisoners of war ?

Re: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

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Post by tamimio »

big-and-small wrote: post #51
jabroni_salad wrote: post #45

This will be very interesting if they can conquer the distribution issue. During the Hong Kong protests I recall several such solutions were created, but the dominant thing ended up being airdrop because it is what so many people already had locked and loaded.

Another problem is what happens when police stop to search you. You don't want to have "please beat me dead" app installed when it's happens.

It’s different situation in Gaza tho, unlike protests where you might need to hide your identity going there to participate so having that app will expose you, in gaza it’s more of a concentration camp where the main resources are controlled but on the ground, not really, so no police will stop you there because you have an app, bitchat might be the perfect solution.
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