Today, a package of a dozen “child online safety” bills is moving forward in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The laws, framed as a way to crack down on harmful content and make the internet safer, would force social media companies to enact invasive identity verification measures in order to keep children from accessing online spaces.

That's the point. Do enough crazy shit at once and most of it will be overlooked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

I like to join your community and you can help me setup one for me and my family. Fuck social media and corporate.

Honestly, I look at this and I see a future where everyone runs their own Federated services

I very much doubt it. People in general just don't care, or even worse. They think that it is a good thing as it keeps baddies out (it won't) and it will protect them (it won't).

It seems line very dark times are ahead. Self hosting is good, but it also gives the other side a bright shining beacon to go after. If they know everything about 99% of the population already, they can spend a lot more resources to really get to know the last percent that actively tries to avoid it.

Next step: allow only official services to be used. Introduce draconian legislation to persecute circumvention.

Fines with no legal recourse, debanking or complete banking bans, like EU has imposed on four people so far.

I tried something similar with my brother-in-law. He is not against chat control in Europe (we live in Denmark), so I asked him to give me his phone, unlock it and let me play around with it without him in the same room. He refused, but still has "nothing to hide". He has not changed his mind...

And then do nothing when handed one of the biggest child sexual abuse cases ever.

It doesn't have a paywall for me; sorry if it does for some people, I wouldn't have linked to it if I had known this, but leaving it up because it clearly doesn't for everyone.

Just a tip: many"paywalled" sites actually load the content then obscure it with JavaScript - you can just click on the reading mode browser button to see the full article

Dead internet theory will be in full effect

The founding fathers didn't think everyone should vote, and frankly i think they're right. They had the wrong criteria, sure, but the average person is so gullible, uninformed, and just plain stupid that i genuinely think they (and everyone else) would be better off without a say.

But how to be more selective without it being abused by horrible people? I've got no real idea.

<2y I think. Buy your radios now.

do you wish it?

It's Tor time!

Come on, grab your friends

We'll send our data through

Distant lands.

No, time for i2p.

Yes, surely TOR will protect us from government surveillance...

The project was originally developed on behalf of the U.S. intelligence community and continues to receive U.S. government funding, and has been criticized as "more resembl[ing] a spook project than a tool designed by a culture that values accountability or transparency".[177] As of 2012, 80% of The Tor Project's $2M annual budget came from the United States government, with the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and the National Science Foundation as major contributors,[178] aiming "to aid democracy advocates in authoritarian states".[179] Other public sources of funding include DARPA, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the Government of Sweden.

[...]

Critics say that Tor is not as secure as it claims,[185] pointing to U.S. law enforcement's investigations and shutdowns of Tor-using sites such as web-hosting company Freedom Hosting and online marketplace Silk Road.

But also...

In October 2013, after analyzing documents leaked by Edward Snowden, The Guardian reported that the NSA had repeatedly tried to crack Tor and had failed to break its core security, although it had had some success attacking the computers of individual Tor users.[27] The Guardian also published a 2012 NSA classified slide deck, entitled "Tor Stinks", which said: "We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users all the time", but "with manual analysis we can de-anonymize a very small fraction of Tor users".[186] When Tor users are arrested, it is typically due to human error, not to the core technology being hacked or cracked.

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A late 2014 report by Der Spiegel using a new cache of Snowden leaks revealed, however, that as of 2012 the NSA deemed Tor on its own as a "major threat" to its mission, and when used in conjunction with other privacy tools such as OTR, Cspace, ZRTP, RedPhone, Tails, and TrueCrypt was ranked as "catastrophic," leading to a "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications, presence..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)

YMMV, and your implementation and usage matter.

Luigis Mansion Capitol.

If they "figure it out" it will mean that there is no alternative, and no technology on its own will prevent that. I think until that happens, you just build spaces they do not control, and avoid contributing to what they do control, and act to make encroaching control expensive and difficult. Don't comply with unjust laws.