#RFC1984 This is the real thing to worry about with governments.
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#RFC1984 This is the real thing to worry about with governments. Trying to weaken backdoor encryption, not lock down, not making you wear a mask. Your communications and your data being surveiled by your government. This is how control happens. Knowlege is power.
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RT @onepict
Back in August 1996 @ietf thought incredibly carefully about cryptography and the internet. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1984 Even back then governments were t…
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: on last edited by
This retweet came out of frustration with people misusing Orwell and Foucault. They scrape the surface idea of obvious oppression without understanding the soul of the work and other aspects of history and philosophy both writers focus on.
I also think they are doing it from a selfish individualistic point of view, while ignoring the very real surveillance dangers and control via manipulation from a bunch of con artists who tell them what to hear.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: on last edited by
It's the battle for the good of the commons versus individual freedom. This attitude covers everything including the debate over climate change.
Humans progress through cooperation. They learned to survive via cooperation. Dialogue on this has been with us since ancient times with Gilgamesh and Enkidu. With Enkidu representing a pastoral point of view.
Humans won't survive unless we look at the freedom of the commons rather than individual freedom.
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Matthew G. (in the wind)replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict Since the "common good" is so often used to deny individual liberty, I look askance at anybody who insists that I yield to their idea of the "common good", because while the needs of the many often outweigh those of the few, they should not outweigh the rights of an individual.
As far as I'm concerned, the "common good" is for progressives what "think of the children" is for conservatives. It's nothing but a fig leaf for an ulterior motive to me.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Matthew G. (in the wind) last edited by
@starbreaker well that is your choice, your individual liberty over others.
Mine is to think of communal good.
My socialisation is different from yours.
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Matthew G. (in the wind)replied to Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: last edited by
@onepict "My socialization is different from yours."
You and about 8 billion other people's.
The adults in my life seemed to have decided that since I had taught myself to read as a toddler, I could figure everything else out on my own, too.
The upside is that I don't feel obligated to perform hegemonic masculinity. You've already seen the downside; without a sense of community, appeals to the "common good" fall flat.
I find myself more responsive to appeals to enlightened self-interest.
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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:replied to Matthew G. (in the wind) last edited by
@starbreaker good for you.