All this dystopian talk about online age verification is going to have me either become an extreme Luddite where I don't touch technology anymore or I'm going to be even more of an extremist and disappear further into Tor and I2P. Never touching ClearNet again.
And what bothers me even more is that the US is definitely headed on the direct path of biometrically locked driver's licenses and digital IDs. It's happening everywhere in the world and the lack of pushback is fucking Asinine.
You don't understand, this is all to save the children! Why do you hate children so much?!?!?!?!
it's totally proving in real time what i suspected all along. people like to talk about things more than fix them. especially with fake humans online, for views.
i feel you 🫂
i couldn't survive without a computer, trying to move more and more stuff offline/local internet
another reason why i'm so invested in mesh networks
Nerdy pipe dream I have is to live in a community where we have a local intranet set up.
What kind of mesh network?
hmm, any kind!
BLE mesh like bitchat, radio signals like meshtastic, or just connecting routers together 🌐
OK. I started looking into meshtastic a while ago, seems like the best contender so far. There was another one but I cannot remember the name right now....
Meshtastic is a fun toy but Riticulum is far superior.
Thanks for the suggestion, will look into it as well.
This one?
Yup.
Hmm
Run somewhere better is imo only option. Society will bend.
It's all "levels." Get a VPN, use decentralized tech like Nostr and Bitcoin and you're already ahead of the curve for 99% of people.
Get a VPN is terrible advice.
The government use VPNs to spy on you.
He was right. 
Right ideas, wrong approach
Please elaborate if you don't mind, this was before I realized almost everything we're be told is a huge lie. The unibomber Ted Kazinski is all I know.......... Just started looking into in and just started his manifesto but holy fuck he has some incredibly spot on interpretations of what is going on so far ahead his time ad you mentioned. Thank you for opening my eyes to this with your comment, I appreciate it. I long for a better future.
Wait until all the first gen bitcoin billionaire cypher punks learn they can buy senators pretty cheap
And then they will wield state power against their enemies while regular people just get the same nonsense in different packaging.
There is a reason they had to toss the Ring into the volcano, absolute power cannot be wielded safely, it will always turn those who come by it into unspeakable monstrosities.
Sure, though I think at the same time the state is going to be less and less capable of funding violence. They’ll need to treat people more like customers when they can’t easily seize or print.
I agree with that in principle and printing does seem to be getting harder overall but most Western countries are just primed and ready for the type of War Socialism that Mises described and that was the law of the land during and after the world wars.
We've all lived through a brief spell of totalitarianism and it simply needs another crisis, pretend or otherwise, to bring about total domination of all aspects of daily life and you know something? Most of the people we know will bare their fangs at the mere thought of criticizing the regime.
Australia had camps for dissidents five years ago, Germany still has camps left over from the last time tyranny was en vogue, and the US can, allegedly through FEMA, plonk one down wherever people get a little too uppity with their guns and their decentralized money.
I'm not saying all is lost but I'm rapidly losing faith in that meaningful change can be brought about peacefully.
I suspect you may be right. One silver lining is there are a lot of people now inoculated against “two weeks to slow the spread” tyranny that would absolutely flip out if tried again. Hella people are red pilled and based or whatever now. I don’t think the regime is getting stronger.
I agree, the soft tyranny approach, leading unsuspecting cattle to the slaughter, seems to be burnt for the moment, too many people caught on to the fact that at the very least, government programmes might not always work quite as planned 😄 That's why I think the next thing they'll try is going to be the big patriotic hurrah of a "necessary and unavoidable war to defend our freedom" ... hundreds or thousands of miles from where our lives actually take place, destroying the lives of people so poor they can't find two goats to rub together while further impoverishing the lower and middle class in western countries.
And I also agree that the regime is getting weaker, they blatantly announce things they had the decency to at least cover up just a few years ago.
Or, you know, arresting protesters while telling them they should be happy they don't live in Russia where they arrest protesters.
A likely scenario to me seems to be the world of Cyberpunk (2077), polititically we're about 80% there, we already have the corporatism/fascism disallowing regular people to build wealth through hard work, as well as a steadily growing number of government-guaranteed violent monopolies. Add to that a few advanced body modifications and an inaccessible internet (In Cyberpunk, AI ran rampant there, in the real world it might just be excessive KYC) and you're one good crisis away from everything falling apart, nations and alliances dissolving into city states, governments securing their own while leaving the vast majority to fight it out amongst themselves with no protection or "rights" other than what they can secure for themselves, violently or otherwise.
Funnily enough, even though it's far away from an anarcho-capitalist utopia, in Cyberpunk you at least get a chance to rise above your station without being hampered in _every_ possible way by an all-devouring bureaucracy so maybe it isn't the worst possible future. Certainly beats 1984 🤷♂️
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RIP legend
It honestly just feels inevitable now. I spend at least 30min a day trying to understand privacy tech. Getting under the hood, what makes it work?
Improving my knowledge, whats available. How we can make it more accessible to non-techies etc.
It might be time for me to learn how to grow/trade for my own food.
Most people do not want freedom, as it entails personal responsibility. I’m still amazed this surprises anyone.
None of us can change that, or what the governments, corporations, ‘they’ do.
Set up your life to be as independent and self-reliant - and enjoyable - as you can.
With luck, you might spark curiosity in some normies along the way.
There is literally no one here , hear you . You might want to try X, there a lot more politician , organization and people . Probably your concern be heard. .
Solutions incoming 🌻
