Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It’s hilarious how dumb this is.

Agreed. Algorithms, bots and fake news work together to create and perpetuate harmful narratives.

I think the DMA has the right idea and it should be extended. Any platform with a large user base should be heavily regulated and controlled.

We can still have mostly unregulated and uncensored free speech on small platforms, since those aren’t harmful for our democracy.

This has been policy for countries like Russia and China for a long time.

It’s sad that it needs to be policy for the USA, but here we are.

In the land of the blind, the one eye is king.

Sure, it could be better, but it isn’t better anywhere else.

Bingo.

The idea that CEO’s will put morals over profits is hopelessly naive.

If you want companies to act morally, you need to implement legislation and be willing to enforce that legislation. And not small million dollar fines, serious fines like 10% of revenue and personal liability and even jail time for executives.

But the American public only cares about having the stock market go up. They don’t care about their data.

We have long passed the point where lobbying and bribing were just doing your fiduciary duty.

And indeed, it seems we are back to feudalism and you have to pay tribute to the divine king and kiss his ring.

And how will they know if you’re a fundie or not?

What they’re doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they’ll get you.

So don’t do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.

But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won’t be able to tell the difference.

Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It’s not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn’t killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting “godless heathens” in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

Looking like them provides a survival advantage.

There is nobody more entitled on this planet than the Orange man and his followers.

People really don’t understand how much wealth is being siphoned off the middle class.

Our technology is advanced enough that we can provide everyone on the planet a very comfortable life. Basically a European middle class lifestyle, but with less meat and air travel than the average European has today.

The fact that we don’t is because of greed.

The USA is on a path to become way more hostile than China.

Trump supports Russia even more than China does. And it’s quite likely that he actually has a secret alliance with the CCP. It just doesn’t make sense that someone could be a friend of Putin and enemy of the CCP.

Yes, obviously Japan and Australia share our values.

But we really don’t want to end up in a situation where we stand against USA+Russia+China.

You and the people upvoting you are naively optimistic to think the old world order will return.

It really is time to see reality and prepare for the worst

I can understand that that would be his official answer.

But for both Europe and Canada, friendly relations with China are beneficial to counter US hostility.

I never expected that I would ever say that, but here we are.

They hate a strong Europe and Canada the most, because a liberal world order is the biggest threat to their Big Tech Gilead goal.

Once they start imprisoning and killing prominent American intellectuals, the remainder will seek asylum in Canada and Europe.

Russia and China are their buddies, the hate for China and sanctions on Russia are performative.

But the hate for Canada and Europe is real.

At some point, a wireless mesh of towers will also be connected to the internet by fiber.

I don’t know if your are autistic, AI or just an asshole.

But the context is rural broadband internet, someone said you have to build out a fiber network, I said you can just roll-out 5G and use MiFi, which is in fact the most common solution for rural broadband internet worldwide.

I never meant to imply that you can run broadband without a single fiber cable.

We are comparing against Starlink, dude.

No, towers can be connected wirelessly with each other.

With modern wireless technology, fiber isn’t even necessary. 5G is cheap and easy.

I don’t know why the Brexiteers are pumping this narrative again.

No, I don’t for one minute believe that Macron would jeopardize European security just for fishing rights. There is no way that Poland, Germany and the Netherlands would accept that.

I do believe that the politicians are working on a slightly grander deal that will restore trade between the UK and EU. Such a deal could be defended on both sides against critics as “a necessary compromise to secure Europe”.

And Labour will benefit from the economic growth, which they hope will let them keep a majority next elections.

“Unless their home countries sign defense pacts”, which I kinda expect the UK and Turkey to sign.

I agree, which is why I advocate for reform, not abolishment.

Perhaps AI companies should pay a 15% surcharge on their services and that money goes directly into the arts.