• GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Fascists be fascists.

    And yet again, Americans are okay with this. They will make a few posts about how disappointed they are with this, and then move on and forget.

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    21 hours ago

    Crazy how the federal government has the power to do this under Trump, but lacked the ability to rein these companies in for foreign misinformation under Obama and Biden.

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      6 hours ago

      They didn’t lack the power. That’s just the excuse they use all the time. Because they still serve the same billionaire overlords with the same agendas, just in different color.

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      21 hours ago

      And how Republicans lost their fucking minds when the Biden administration essentially said “hey Twitter I see you’re not enforcing your own TOS on some of these covid misinformation users, could you do something about that?”

      “Conservatives” when Democrat admin:

      OH MY GOD, CENSORSHIP FOR BEING A REPUBLICAN!!! WE NEED COMMITTEE INVESTIGATIONS! TWITTERGATE! THE TWITTER FILES!!!

      “Conservatives” when Republican admin:

      “Teehee, censorship is good when it’s against my enemy!”

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        The sale of tiktok to Larry Ellison was a Biden era project to censor speech about Israel that got coopted by Trump because they started it in like the last few months of Biden’s presidency (because Israel was making him look bad). I think all of these assholes want to control speech on the internet, for different but equally stupid and evil reasons.

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      17 hours ago

      Both Obama and Biden knew how to wield incredible amounts of power and they used it to mostly do nothing other than bomb brown kids and use their influence over the media to convince people that they’re trying to get the zionists to cooperate (they didnt acturally do that)

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    18 hours ago

    Is there any progress on a peer to peer alternative to the internet? I’m not talking TOR, I’m talking full mesh, as in the hardware backbone is peer to peer as well

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      Yes! It’s a fairly new, but nonetheless impressive system called Reticulum. If you’re familiar with mesh networks, it is essentially an entire networking stack you can flash to many devices, even an ESP-32. It has the ability to use existing infrastructure as well, so it can bridge the gap between mesh nodes and the greater internet on its own.

      Personally, I have one ESP32 node for Meshtastic, and another for Reticulum. They run on the exact same hardware, like a prebuilt Meshtastic node you can buy online is one firmware flash away from (hypothetically) cutting out the ISP. As per usual for these systems, they’re completely decentralized and under the control of the community. Truly a piece of software I would love for every modern router to ship with.

      As far as TOR relevance goes, it doesnt use TOR itself, but the infrastructure behind it has anonymity built in through a similar node system. I dont understand the full scope of how deep it runs, but these links below should be able to shed light.

      Link to project: https://reticulum.network/ Github page: https://github.com/markqvist/reticulum

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      Technically, I think the Internet is considered a mesh.

      I know of nothing trying to replace the Internet, but some wireless projects like Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network (technically can’t use encryption on amateur radio bands), Meshtastic (messaging), MeshCore (messaging), and Reticulum (messaging, simple pages, BBS-like stuff). Any community could also try to set up a wifi mesh with something like the BATMAN protocol. Wireless meshes have all sorts of problems though. They must be carefully planned to get decent bandwidth because everyone’s using the same “wire” (radio bands). Also, governments could easily jam or DoS them.

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      14 hours ago

      I’m not sure that helps this particular problem, since doing the hardware differently doesn’t necessarily do much to prevent them from collecting information.

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    20 hours ago

    The Nationalsozialisten issued hundreds of subpoenas to local businesses to unmask Jews that criticized the Gestapo.

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    21 hours ago

    world: we need to remove fascists from power

    usa: sorry, best we can do is “if not fascism why fascism shaped”