Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, giving the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like. President Trump himself has said that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the...
    • spectre [he/him]English
      25•2 months ago

      The fediverse can form the basis of the new Internet. More use of “local only” comms will help an “underground” start to develop.

      I think it would be interesting for Lemmy to add an in-between “neighborhood” level for comms where certain instances like 'grad could interact but larger instances could not. I have always thought it would be healthy for Hexbear to split to a new instance on occasion and federate back when there’s a struggle session, but it’s also understandable why that hasn’t happened yet.

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]English
        10•2 months ago

        I haven’t read the text of the bill, but the Fediverse, in and of itself, is not a solution. The Fediverse is much more resilient against corporate censorship for a number of reasons, but the infrastructure is still largely centralized under the roofs of a handful of cloud hosting providers. When the Five Eyes deem an instance (or the whole platform) to be a threat to their political power, rather than a threat to Reddit’s ad revenue, they will lean on these cloud service providers to conduct surveillance on users or shut down instances, and they will comply without putting up a fight out of self-preservation.

      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]English
        3•2 months ago

        The fediverse can form the basis of the new Internet.

        If one is careful to avoid using companies for email, payment processing, hosting, etc. who have any sort of business tie to America.

  • SwitchyandWitchy [she/her]English
    13•2 months ago

    Sometimes I feel like capitalists read all the propaganda they fund about China and get jealous of the fantasy tyranny.

    • 🌶️ - knighthawkEnglish
      3•2 months ago

      China has boomed in the last decade and these folks will emulate anything they think might get them a bigger slice of the pie