@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run
2026-04-22 10:28 UTC
@hazelnot in particular the internet is a set of protocols and standards all of which enable warrantless surveillance and unaccountable censorship at massive scale enabled through what amounts to money laundering and it can be fixed in a technological way that ensures reliability (not the arbitrary ping times we get now) as well as anonymity which resists ddos unlike extant protocols such as tor
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 2026-04-22 10:29
@hazelnot open standards themselves are often a way to give the pretense of democratic governance without any of the attendant controls or accountability over the exercise of power. this is a problem we also find in the fediverse