@ChristiJunior@Moon It's the only thing that works anymore, I fully expect that when Congress finally manages to get one of their internet censorship bills through it'll be cloaked in "save the children" bullshit, so that everybody who criticizes it can be slandered as pedophiles. :bocchi_dead:
(It will, of course, do absolutely nothing to impede actual child molesters and will exclusively be used to track down people who say nigger or post spicy anime girls :chino_dead: )
@Moon if you refuse to use centralized services to monitor your user you will be labeled a pedophile and dragged off to prison when they plant several hundred terabytes of the worst abuse materials imaginable in your house shortly before it burns to the ground
@Giganova8@Moon That's why we need to keep close track of what these "save the children" pro-censorship types think about shit like public school Groomers and Drag Queen Story Hour.
@romin@Moon@vhns would that even be deemed constitutional tho? let alone enforceable
anyway they'd have to outlaw tor, which the feds themselves created :puniko_shrug:
if we set aside videos and large images, both of which are hardly necessities, the core of networks like fedi is inherently very low bandwidth. there's no practical reason you couldn't operate it on top of a mesh net
@ChristiJunior@Giganova8@Moon That's why we need to create robust encrypted social networks that mimic other internet traffic and/or filter everything through TOR and/or i2p. The politics are not in our favor. Most Americans now want mass censorship.
@coolboymew@ChristiJunior@caekislove@Moon@Giganova8 I don't have that kind of optimism. With the right leading question, pretty sure you get 90% to agree that they want mass censorship. Of course, you can also make 90% oppose mass censorship by asking the questions the right way.
@caekislove@ChristiJunior@Moon@Giganova8 literal lowest iq take ever. get kids off the internet and socially shames parents that let them on without any fucking mercy.
@divVerent@ChristiJunior@caekislove@Moon@Giganova8 Yes / No but they can definitively write everything they want to lean in the way they want and then distribute it in the right circle to get exactly the answer they wanted and maybe even cook their own conclusions so that journos can propaganda
- "do you want mass censorship" - leading towards no censorship - "do you support filtering of radical and extremist content" - leading towards yes censorship - "do you support filtering of child abuse content" - leading towards yes censorship - "should providers be fully responsible for the content they host" - leading towards no censorship - "should providers be exempt from any responsibility for the content they host" - leading towards yes censorship
Let's say some poastie snaps and attacks some public place. Actually no. It doesn't need to be that as shown by CVille and the Jogger case. It'll just be a poastie in a self defense situation, and then he gets his case fucked over because the cops found his TND and Jew meme cache. While this is happening, the mainstream media will try to understand this scary network Nazis use running hit pieces like they did with Poast's leak and that's when it'll be far harder to host something that isn't either on tor or with no frontend because hosters will start to cave a lot easier under pressure (see: why it's so hard to host KF now). .
@not_br549@Moon@burner@verita84 I should also add, what made Josh ditch hosting his own imageboard attempt wasn't the CSAM spam (he even managed to get CloudFlare's CSAM filter). No, it was the FBI contacting him because someone made a threat towards Israel or about killing Jews or something.
And all it's going to take is one teen groomed by FBI agents and schizos online before the hit pieces come out (don't believe me? Remember how fast TPTB tried to erase the confederate flag after some bowlcut mass shooter had it in selfies?)
@not_br549@burner@verita84@Moon IMO though what I think is going to be more likely (since it's far easier to carry out) are fedposters.
Remember how the feds were using threadreader the other month to search for anyone making threats towards Larry Plink of Crackrock? Or Alex Linder's fedpost that totally wasn't him that got DRC contacted by the FBI? Or how KF kept losing hosts for a while because of "no bad tactics" activists using lurker accounts to post fake threats and then reporting them the minute they clicked post?
The best part is, you don't even need to have illegal content on your phone to false flag like this.