Notices by Mike (VK1OMG) 🏴‍☠️ (mike_k@mstdn.social)

"Instead of aiming for the root of these harms, the concentrated power at the heart of the platform monopoly, the mass surveillance that is the engine of this business model... we see efforts almost to extend this surveillance and this monitoring and give governments a piece of it." – Meredith Whittaker, Signal, ex Google, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws

@RustyBertrand 2024, what a year huh

Cory Doctorow on walled gardens.