In the German audiobook version on Audible the foreword is written and spoken by Robert Habeck, current green Economics Minister in Germany, responsible for lots of the 1984 stuff happening rn.
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It's happening everywhere, mostly in "developed" countries. Tech peoples need to be very careful.
Yes. Especially the EU is on a very dangerous path right now.
EUSSR is failed union. The Bureaucaste just doesn’t know it yet and they keep digging themselves deeper and deeper.
Hope the Western Europeans are more of a freedom lovers than hedonists though.
For Eastern Europe I still think we might have a chance.
The EU is better at using its power to control virtually everything. It is literally becoming a leader in censorship worldwide. An unelected body should not have this much control.
They are all same!
People should be on the streets against Chatcontrol but nobody gives af. It's the end of freedom, most open source projects etc. Probably using nostr will be considered an illegal act once it's enforced.
True, They hate free speech; every day, they will be blackmailing some other social media. But Nostr will surprise them; they will have no CEO to call. 🤙
isn’t it eurocentric to think that’s mostly a developed countries thing? 🤔
not me forgetting to remove all the replies, sorry guys
In not only the Eurozone but also in most developed countries, as well as some developing countries, I believe that it is more closely associated with the centralization of power & tech.
this term refers to the trend of placing western cultures (including us) at the center of the discourse. i used it as the closest to what i meant, though not all developed countries are western, ofc
and still, i think both developing and developed countries are in trouble – new tech will probably invented it developed countries, but would be used in developing ones as well.
centralisation of power is the main problem here, developed countries have more opportunities to resist repressive laws because they have well-established social institutions, while developing ones may lack such institutions, leading to a quicker erosion of liberties.
btw, there are some updates on Protasevich and Sapega case - you can learn what happens with independent journalists when they do (and do not) coordinate with a velvet dictatorship, and how sometimes only public outcry can help 🤕