cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46331006
It’s ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all in the name of protecting children.
It’s also highly suspicious that so many of the world’s biggest countries are trying to implement this wider internet control at the same time.
Feels like a major push toward authoritarianism to me.
It’s messed up how the people always have to fight to wrest any rights from those in power, and then fight even harder to keep them!
Yes The most important fight for our generation.
Every drop of political activity matters.
Use streets to raise people’s awareness across the globe - glue stickers, drop leaflets, everything that attracts attention in the physical world
Recent pushes feel stronger than ever not out of consolidation, but desperation. From what I follow on these matters, it seems like an attempt to salvage a project from people more or less aligned in freedom-taking agendas that took at least a century to build, and that for the past 10~20 years, is breaking apart ever faster.
Forgot to mention, but even though the agendas that brought the world to its current state are all falling, it’s still worth pushing against those freedom-chipping projects. Faltering is letting these problems regain territory.
Yes, but we shouldn’t have to mention Epstein in order to make our point. That just makes our side look dumber. Epstein died in 2019 and none of this has anything to do with him at all.
We should be opposing it because we want a free society based on individual rights in which people are allowed to speak, communicate, associate with anyone they want about anything they want.
a social class of legally unreproachable pedophiles being the ones invoking “protect children” to violate our rights seems pretty relevant to me.
I don’t give a crap about hypocrisy but people have got to wise up to this manipulation tactic
While I agree with your 2nd point, I do think it’s important to point out the hypocrisy of the elites.
