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   Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 01:54:01 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

   If the FCC essentially destroys the American internet (as seems likely to happen under this administration)... what's the plan?

   I suppose Veilid or Tor might enter (back) in to things? But, at this point, I personally have no faith in Tor and I don't know enough about Veilid.

   Things like Mastodon get way harder to operate if you suddenly find yourself liable for anything anyone you federated with posts.

   And "freedom of speech" has been essentiall illusory for a while, but we have every reason to believe it's about to become more so. How long before saying "fuck the police" or "free Palestine" is grounds for imprisonment rather than just a severe beating by the armed militia masquerading as law and order in this country?

   What happens then?

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 02:17:12 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     This is not an attempt at fear mongering or catastrophizing.

     The internet as a platform looks more precarious by the day. It has since the Obama administration, frankly.

     We're going to see a contraction of digital rights eventually, and it's likely to come from this administration, and we need to have already worked the kinks out of the replacement tooling (or be ready to go without.)

     If there are people you care about, get their email addresses, get their matrix handles or their signal numbers. Have more than one way to reach them, in the event that the way you reach them right now becomes illegal.

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     Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 02:17:13 JST Andrew (Television Executive)

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     From a technical perspective, we move to encrypted overlays and sneakernets.

     And we eschew anything that looks too much like a distributed immutable ledger. Mutability is fine. If you want to trust the message, get the message signed.

     murph :fedora: :amiga: and alcinnz repeated this.