Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
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Re: Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
#2Very cool. I'm curious to see how this compares to SSB.
Re: Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
#3There's any interesting spectrum of tools could rub the powers that be the wrong way all the way to all out rebellion.
That being said maybe this app is just well-marketed groupware.
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#4There won't be peace on Earth until people give up on the idea that they have the right to coerce other people into political relationships.
Re: Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
#5> Behind the scenes — where unknown administrators are accessing its data and devising and managing protest actions to distribute via the app — there may be an entirely centralized view of available human protest resources. But it’s not clear what the other side of the platform looks like. Our source was unable to show it to us or articulate what it looks like.
It doesn’t seem as decentralized as advertised. The authorities just have to coerce some of the admins and they have a very nice view of what is going on in the movement in real-time.
Re: Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
#6Very cool. I'm curious to see how this compares to SSB.
This is not a protocol and it's not decentralised at all. Only the admins can control the app and its users.
It's not related to Scuttlebutt at all.
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#7There won't be peace on Earth until people give up on the idea that they have the right to coerce other people into political relationships.
We (USA) fought a war over that. The "if we agreed to stay together then we have to stay together" side won.
Re: Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
#8> Behind the scenes — where unknown administrators are accessing its data and devising and managing protest actions to distribute via the app — there may be an entirely centralized view of available human protest resources. But it’s not clear what the other side of the platform looks like. Our source was unable to show it to us or articulate what it looks like. It doesn’t seem as decentralized as advertised. The auth…
The authorities are the admins. Everybody knows Torra is behind the protests.
Re: Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
#9There won't be peace on Earth until people give up on the idea that they have the right to coerce other people into political relationships.
We (USA) fought a war over that. The "if we agreed to stay together then we have to stay together" side won.
But the scope of what "stay together" means has steadily grown since then.
Re: Catalan separatists have tooled up with decentralized app for civil disobedience
#10It's like a human botnet.