This age verification thing for social media has me thinking.
Won't the authoritarians eventually close the nostr mobile and desktop loophole by placing restrictions on app store approvals and website hosts?
What are we gonna do? All see each other on sided-loaded android apps over tor?
Sure, if we have to
Yes
I'm migrating to grapheneos as soon as they drop their phone to avoid that inevitability I see coming too 👀
I keep wanting to do that.
I bought a de-googled (Unplugged) phone a couple summers ago but the phone has some issues. I’m due for a new phone though.
Local clients context vm for state.
Or
FuckDNS
Obviously that will happen at some point. But it will keep growing and they’ll introduce “safe” government Nostr relays plus apps. Just a repeat of the whole Bitcoin as a free thing -> KYC and on/off ramp throttling and chainalysis -> ETF timeline. Some end up on the cucked version of it but the thing itself ensures freedom by simply existing
Yes. 🎯
That’s the most likely plan.
When you couple this law with digital ID, it closes the loopholes pretty quickly.
-I’d then expect, laws to pass criminalizing grapheneOS and other open sourced projects.
Digital ID’s are the closest thing to 1984 I’ve seen yet.
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Seriously, don't paint yourself into corners by adhering to you can only use new stuff thing.
Sometimes, it's better to use the error correction between your ears than the digital kind, it's harder to target.
At some point we will have to take the war to them. We are told that soon the Internet of Things will be everywhere, all your appliances will be talking to each other. I am sure that their operating systems will be less heavily monitored than mobiles and desktops, so if someone was to hack them into a Nostr meshnet...
Apps:
- First they'll close 3rd party app stores (developer KYC and user KYC)
- Age limits for apps
- Banning of apps (if user tracking is not implemented)
- 3rd party OSes can be criminalised but are hard to stop completely
Web:
- Web is harder to limit. What we've seen so far: Cloudflare being banned in Spain, DNS bans of websites, Raids at providers
- at some point VPN apps might be banned
- Custom DNS resolving
- Final level: Great firewall (of china)-level blocking
Tor:
- Attack on exit nodes, maybe?
Unfortunately many regular people support measures for more control over the social media monopolies and age restrictions for minors. They are already KYC'ed everywhere and have no awareness for the benefits of anonymity.
These policies are already pretty unpopular. With Australia even the regulators are basically saying "yeah we know people will get around this, but it's the principle of the thing," or some other such BS.
This is just training a generation of EU and Aus teenagers to evade centralized government control.... Americans teens would be wise to learn from them.
surely they will begin to criminalize the 'nostr' protocol because being a system where client creators no longer have control of user accounts and publications are distributed on various servers around the world, they will simply make this site look like a dangerous place, because with this system, regulation is more difficult than just having everything on a single server.
only there you have to look at the case of odysee and vidlii, pages that give an experience similar to YouTube in their beginnings, but the majority of users who talk about them are more to make them look like dangerous places and not like a place where there is more freedom. of expression than youtube.
and since Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, ChatGPT, Twitter and several centralized pages already collaborate with governments around the world, they will simply do whatever it takes to prevent people from leaving that controlled environment.
Then we will sign air gapped messages with our Nintendo 64s https://bounties.monero.social/posts/168
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Get Linux phones.
