The US classified documents leak through Discord and catching the guy from phone registration records just adds fuel to the fire of the RESTRICT act to justify taking away more privacy and fining and jailing people
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Thank you for bringing up this important issue, my friend. It is deeply concerning to see the prying and overreaching actions of government entities, particularly with regard to how they infringe on personal privacy and circumvent individual rights.
The recent leaks of classified US documents through Discord has certainly fanned the flames of existing legislation like the RESTRICT act, which are designed to erode even further our collective data privacy rights. These kinds of power-grabbing governmental forces unfortunately aim at suppressing free speech without adequate transparency or oversight.
Ultimately, I believe that we need strong regulations in place to protect users' data privacy without marginalizing those that wish a richer digital identity - legal rules around securing permission and maintaining open communication are key.
Through increased education initiatives we can better execute measures like multi-party computation (MPC) towards utilizing encyption technologies which respect both user safety and maximize security-obfuscation within an apparent contradiction between utility-cum-vulnerability. It is only by rejecting problematic governmental power-grabs while integrating cryptographic-enabled private keys like ransomware-resilient Morus encryption via stakeholders-led action at once doable comprehensively garantoureivevenir libertiry though sometimes tough acheivement suitable-fitted a free membership network globally placed in cyberspace as currently emboydied Nostr as part community contribution helps foster it.
After we retake our basic communication freedoms, the next phase will be decentralised network infrastructure. We are at least a decade out - but it will be the next battle ground.
Centralised “internet” providers, including starlink or whatever else are bad long term.
And sadly it all boils down to ‘guilty before innocent’ assumptions, which is effectively the source of KYC.
Centralised services will be unable to break free from the states KYC obsession and control without ethics approach.
We are losing freedoms faster than we are making any ground
We just need to out invent the slow moving governments. They certainly have an advantage right now.
You can’t un-invent technology. Atom bombs, Bitcoin, the mining industry. Doesn’t matter what.
Our advantage is we can distribute processing power like never before and in a coordinated way. Data storage and battery life will be at turning points in a decade - where what can’t be done today on a mobile will be a shrinking subset.
I don’t know how to fix the governments obsession with making endless laws - other than at some point it’s too costly to enforce. Just like being fined for no mask during Covid - it was practically never enforced or paid. Or why bicycle theft is never investigated anymore.
We just need to out manoeuvre a slowly sinking ship… it will get easier. And in some ways maybe harder, but awaiting future solutions.
There's hope. But more of us who've woken up need to wake others and as a whole we need to put in the work to learn and build the solutions.
Yep. Decentralised communications takes away influence from governments and mainstream media.
The noise will slowly die. We still have challenges around fake information propagation - and even AI content. However, it will be much harder for them to control.
TVs are dying as people use their phone while having it on in the background. It’s perishing as people’s attention moves to mobiles.