Heading to DC for a day, beautiful train journey

Totally agree on current state, would love to see logic of Tor relays and bridges to be explored to circumvent censorship

New project launch: http://GoogleCensorship.org

This platform by GreatFire will monitor censorship practices in Google Play Stores worldwide

This! Has anyone tried since?

https://matrix.org is great

Agreeing here: “Durov and Telegram might yet be exonerated from the charges they face—and we should indeed reserve judgment as the case unfolds. But nothing about his arrest to date suggests that it has anything to do with ‘free speech.’ The narrative that global authoritarian censors are persecuting a free speech hero is pure myth-making in this case.”

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/platforms-like-telegram-accused-of

Interesting. Seeing one relay here for Beijing but assuming any relays would be better off run from overseas https://nostr.watch/relays/find

Beautiful

Any follow recommendations on internet freedom?

My favorite #Riga scene: this Putin portrait is the view the Russian ambassador wakes up to. Latvian know right from wrong.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/99d0c998eaf2dbfaead9abf50919eba6495d8d615f0ded6b320948a4a4f8c478/87a966f4ba950bd4606af8adedb6c1c7502668b4154736a2d50a32e970f30659.webp

Hope all went well. Let’s catch up soon in NY!

That would be amazing

Thank you 🙏

Is there a go to place for all #nostriga slide decks?

Delon est un homme devenu acteur par accident, qui a appris film par film, en avançant. Lui dira qu’il n’interprète pas mais « vit » ses ­rôles. https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2024/08/18/alain-delon-mort-d-un-acteur-de-legende-ses-films-cultes-en-six-episodes_6285260_3246.html

Funny to see Sweden described as tiny https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/business/sweden-economy-europe-competitiveness.html only in America…

Russia / Venezuela:

Signal's built-in censorship circumvention feature might be able to help if a connection is affected:

Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)

Mass outages of YouTube in Russia today, this affects how millions of people get information https://denvergazette.com/news/nation-world/youtube-slowdown-in-russia-darkens-freedom-of-speech-outlook/article_eadc3592-dae0-5fba-a3fb-141c7c95c301.html everyone has been expecting this to happen sooner or later, but the assumption was it won’t for as long as pro Putin propaganda dominated on YouTube which is probably still the case.

Curious if that changed or if the regime now just feels sufficiently confident in VK as a satisfactory substitute.

“The harms of surveillance aren't merely spiritual and psychological – they're material and immediate. The commercial surveillance industry provides the raw feedstock for a parade of horribles, from stalkers and bounty hunters turning up on their targets' front doors to cops rounding up demonstrators with location data from their phones to identity thieves tricking their marks by using leaked or purchased private information as convincers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/#but-not-just-privacy

The problem with Google's monopolization of the surveillance business model is that they're spying on us. But for a certain kind of competition wonk, the problem is that Google is monopolizing the violation of our human rights, and we need to use competition law to "democratize" commercial surveillance.”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/

5G vulnerability allows for tricking phones with vulnerable basebands into connecting to a fake base station https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/07/hackers-could-spy-on-cellphone-users-by-abusing-5g-baseband-flaws-researchers-say/