politics and related to internet censorshipsome thoughts: with the way russia and china and the western governments are starting to creep up on internet freedoms or connectivity at all, maybe it's a good time for me as any to actually learn some tech literacy and build internet infrastructure knowledge. maybe not only internet — for example, radio?
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#1 alice in chains glazer@mynameistillian@plush.city
politics and related to internet censorshipmy friend tells me that it's very likely russia will try to completely isolate itself from the outer internet north korea style within the next future through blocking of any IPs that aren't russian. the budget for this kind of feat has to be tremendous, but maybe the desire for fash control will prevail over the desire to pilfer the budget this time. he told me ppl should start building alternative nets now - Yggdrasil n such, before it's too late
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#1 alice in chains glazer@mynameistillian@plush.city
politics and related to internet censorshipproblem is of course, once again, the difficulty and understanding ceiling. we're talking about ordinary people like me here. it's easy to do that if you're a late 20s linux-loving slicer. try explaining what the fuck is a mesh to your older neighbour who works at a factory all day. and the problem is, you gotta build the infra now, because when the shutdown happens, you won't be able to install shit anymore
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#1 alice in chains glazer@mynameistillian@plush.city
politics and related to internet censorshipnow that i think of it, understanding internet and operating communication devices should be something that, ideally, everyone or the vast majority of people should know in the 21st century. it should be like reading or writing, to a degree. because there's an asymmetry of power at play here — we do not own our means of talking to others
politics and related to internet censorship@mynameistillian the simplest and most impactful thing you could learn to do would be the craft your own VPN to circumvent firewalls and, ideally, remain undetected.
