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!
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.