Digital Freedom

Unlike many other countries, in particular ones in Europe, there are no privacy or data protection laws restricting how Americans’ private information can be bought or sold.

The real agenda is that “urban elites” want to enforce an “authoritarian project” on Europe, he said. Calling Twitter “essential to free speech and true democracy,” Bay pointed out that censoring the platform is an attempt to “steal democracy from the people” and to “promote political correctness and to spread [the EU’s] woke propaganda.”

“Despite claiming to defend fundamental rights, the EU is actually restricting freedom of speech and of thought, which are the fundamentals of a real democracy. … This liberticide tendency is aggravating and extremely worrying,” Bay said.

I was so brainwashed that I forgot, as many people do, that secrets do not belong to governments. That information belongs to us. Governments rule by our consent. If they want to keep secrets, they must have our permission to do so. And they never have the right to keep crimes secret.

A literal ministry of truth.

Politicians are pushing to put a ban your ability to have private messages.

Governments want a backdoor to all of your communications.

Our breakdown of this form of an attack on speech dates back to the 1990s and the early days of the internet…

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/148767

It is crucial to ensure that in our pursuit of technological advances, we do not inadvertently sacrifice the very privacy and security that we seek to protect.

But the devices — equipped with cameras, microphones and, in some cases, facial recognition technology — are often poorly secured by their manufacturers compared to computers or smartphones, the FBI warned last week. That opens up the technology to cybercriminals who can exploit the vulnerability to access home routers, TechCrunch reported.

"Beyond the risk that your TV manufacturer and app developers may be listening and watching you, that television can also be a gateway for hackers to come into your home," read a warning from the government bureau released just before the Black Friday holiday shopping weekend.

“Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV."

The alleged TV spying attempt on Greene is reminiscent of what happened to then CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson during the Obama administration when the home computers she used for work had intrusions detected that were traced back to the federal government. Attkisson had been aggressively reporting on the Obama administration including the Fast and Furious “gun walking” scandal and the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

I think everyone has an idea what they want to do going forward and our ideas may vary. Maybe I’m just idealistic in believing that people with different ideas can coexist together. In a world where everyone is offended by everything how about we put those differences aside even just for a quick conversation. I know I have a habit of getting under peoples skin sometimes but truth be told you guys get under my skin sometimes so I’d say the exchange is equal. There are people trying to ruin this website by launching DDOS attacks on different instances because they don’t lineup with their fanatical political ideology. I am not an expert in the field of technology or coding, but I do have a lot of experience in management and mediating difficult situations between people. We have a great opportunity in front of us to make this website. Really good and safe from such attacks. So again, I invite all of lemmy’s admins to this conversation, I can’t really add much outside of moderating the conversation, but ultimately my goal is to provide a reliable chat forum for all of the websites users to participate in.

Canada’s law expands the territory where big tech platforms are forced to pay for news and could lead to similar laws passing in larger markets, including Brazil, Britain and the United States.

Musk announced that the platform would be declaring that two of radical LGBTQ left’s favorite words are now slurs on Twitter. These words are cis and cisgender.

In addition, users could face suspension for using the terms.

The announcement came in response to a conservative user saying he was being bullied by radical trans activists on the platform.

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The Vehicle Privacy Report creates privacy labels under two broad categories: what a manufacturer collects (including identifiers, biometrics, location, data from synced phones, and user profiles) and whom a manufacturer sells or shares data with (affiliates, service providers, insurance firms, government, and data brokers). For the vast majority of cars and trucks released in the past few years, it’s likely that most types of data are collected.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/131866

All part of a plan to bring in a social credit score.

“Google has monopolized market trading to their advantage and at the expense of publishers, readers and everyone else,”

Would you really hand Zuck even more control over information and communication?

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/126693

As nearly half of Americans engage with their social circle and the world at large through an iPhone, its updates make a significant cultural impact. The recent updates subtly embed and validate progressive ideologies into everyday digital communication, potentially shaping perceptions—especially those of children—amid ongoing ideological debates in America.

Nearly 30 percent of those ages 18 to 29 said they would favor government surveillance in private homes, compared to 5 percent of those older than 65. There was also a significant racial divide: A quarter of Hispanic and a third of black respondents would favor it, compared to 9 percent and 11 percent of white and Asian respondents, respectively.

The anti-free speech movement has become openly Orwellian in claiming to protect freedom by limiting freedom. It also employs using terms like disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation to obscure their effort to silence those with opposing views. Rather than use “censorship,” they refer to “content moderation.”

"We are restricting freedom but we are doing it for the common good.”

Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich has declared free speech is “tyranny.”

What is particularly chilling is how low the threshold is for denying free speech, according to O’Reilly. It now appears that “deep discomfort” is enough.

It is part of an unrelenting movement in Europe, particularly by the European Union, to rollback Western free speech values that once defined countries.

Ireland now stands on the precipice of freedom.

Ireland is declaring “no free speech for haters” and assumes the authority to define who are haters and who are not.

This article blames corporate greed, but I think the bigger issue has been the quest for tyrannical greed through censorship, deplatforming, propaganda, promotion, collusion with intelligence agencies, etc

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/tech/t/45222

Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/120341

"A while ago, I had a comment auto-removed on WPT and got a message it was because my account was “not in good standing.” When I messaged the WPT mods, they explained that they were test piloting a new tool the admins plan to use. For example, if you have a throwaway email address, no email address, or are connecting via VPN, you may be “not in good standing.”

With things like that on the horizon, even if they roll back on what they’re doing now, we’re still not likely to have a very good time on that site."