⚡️💬 Here's what I think:

1. Several countries will require age verification to access social networks.

2. VPN use will increase

3. These countries will ban VPNs, claiming they are doing so "to protect children".

4. They will then create a universal digital ID system to facilitate age verification.

5. Digital IDs will become mandatory to access the Internet.

6. The government will run live detection AI on all your activities

7. The government will use this data to "fight crime" by persecuting anyone daring to express an opinion deviating from the official line.

Your only 2 exit cards:

- Decentralize your money with bitcoin

- Decentralize all your infrastructures: cloud storage, social networks with Nostr.

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First social networks then search engines then the internet in general.

Australia is leading the way

https://michaelwest.com.au/search-the-web-but-only-if-youre-old-enough-whats-the-scam/

That's pretty much what we all think here. 🫡

Some of us are old enough to remember when they tried to put a Clipper chip in our devices so that they could control encryption at the device level... That was 30 years ago and I doubt that they entirely gave up on the idea. I suspect that using AI as the interface is a lot more dangerous than they tell us.

Hardware has to be decentralised too? And internet service provider? These providers will no doubt be compelled to abide by these new “safety” laws in some way or another. How do we get around that?

Starlink ? but I don’t have confidence…

Starlink in Australia is already censored to the same degree as other Australian internet providers.

So I have no hope for them.

Hardware doesn't, software does. And internet service providers can't block it all.

The way to counter it is look into things like FreeSocks, Amnezia VPN, etc. Make sure that if things go dark you have the clients and knowledge where to fjnd this stuff.

I am multiple steps ahead of a simple VPN ban. But I wont share all of them otherwise I cant stay ahead of the curve.

Agreed.

Hardware decentralised. Yes. We're talking phones, laptops, desktops, usb's, vehicles and internet of things.

Currently studying everything ghost is writing . Found him in primal's read section. Subscribed to his website - ghost@untraceabledigitaldissident.com

He highlights a lot of our own vulnerabilities and provides simple, common sense solutions.

Working on myself first - has shown me how stupid I've been. A kinder word would be - trusting. Ghost talks about how your internet behavior is profiled, so they know you better than yourself. You become predictable . You become the product .

It enables me to hammer down the anxiety and now I have tools to work with.

He covers software, apps, networks, databases etc. Haven't got that far yet.

A privacy celebrity?

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The two solutions are a lot harder to achieve if you can't get onto the internet at all. With AI doing the gatekeeping, this could be a problem...

The most common law implemented by all governments is the law of unintended consequences.

Bitcoin doesnt make sense since its also trackable. Would have to be a privacy coin, the very kind of cojn they are pushing the exchanges to ban.

Nostr is a big asset yes, i'd also recommend matrix as long as its not matrix.org's homeserver which is UK based and now subject to the AI safety act.

Decentralization isn't fully immune to any of this, but it vastly reduces the impact. Because yes my matrix homeserver got hit so I am hit despite not being british. But I moved to a US based homeserver (https://matrix.unredacted.org) whivh has an anticensorship stance. So now the UK safety act can't touch me again.

Same thing here. One of the media hosts here is going to comply. But most of the blossum instances aren't. So do your fellow nostriches a favor and switch to a blossum instance for media.

where did you find this US server provider?

I saw them mentioned on a homeserver list when shopping around for homeservers.

could you share?

I reckon that primal will comply and all the other nostr clients are going to be removed from the app store.

It’ll create more demand for vpns and privacy. The tools will get better in response. Anti fragile.

I understood that everyone bar the the totalitarians decided, rightly, that the loss of privacy is of far greater consequence https://www.zerohedge.com/political/creeping-authoritarianism-motion-against-search-engine-age-checks-passes-australian

Perfect.

Hacker countries will have a booming new industry. Just watch the AI's fighting this one out.

Australia here, can confirm all of the above. Bureaucrats are forcing our Uniparty puppets into line.

How do you use cloud storage on Nostr, and how does it compare to Dropbox or OneDrive?

Just host your own “cloud” storage, buy a cheap older Mini PC, put a large SSD in it and run software like Start9 or Umbrel on it

Thanks for the tip, although this would mean not having access to the files on other devices or phone though right?

No, making sure your own and families devices have access to it is super easy with things like Tailscale. But with some more steps you can even run it in such a way that others can access it on the clearnet if you want. Depends on what you are trying to do with the files.

Thanks

I'd say an additional option is to not let this happen, by helping to bring the right people in the seats.

Digital ID will determine how much water you can use per day just cuz someone wants sustainability.

In the scenario you describe, where every action on the internet is monitored and VPNs are outlawed, accessing bitcoin or nostr probably constitute significant crimes which would be detected by the AI systems you describe almost immediately and linked to your digital ID. Next thing you know, your front door explodes and armed men shoot your dog. Also your bitcoin would naturally be confiscated, using various threats of violence against you and your family.

Fact: I log in every day & have never seen this post of nostr:nprofile1qqsy67zzq5tc9cxnl6crf52s4hptdwhyaca5j7r8jwll535tdadedvcpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejs5dgnx4 ~ however, in an attempt to scroll back through my timeline today to find the diamond balls image, and I’m on 5 days, I am seeing LOADS of content never before having been seen yet I am here daily, multiple times a day.

#minorityreport

nostr:nevent1qqsv6qahckk42n7lw0p752l6xu959tqhgm7v3cg9kwv4k42wxhcp0tsp2emhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtmwwp6kyvt2dcehsvmp89mr2mncwpnkxe3hwfnxkdrsdv6r2ur6wp6xuatexfursarvv3mn2urkwpa85mnkv3kkseecwycxvdnwxemqmh8t46