| ▲ | pinoy420 5 days ago |
| My local MP won’t do anything and basically dismissed me as a pedo/terrorist for even considering talking against the OSA. What can be done if those who represent you, don’t? |
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| ▲ | logicchains 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you're an engineer, contribute to technologies that take power away from those who lord over you. Which in this case would be distributed, censorship-resistant communication technologies. There's a lot of work to be done, not only in hard engineering, but also in things like UI and marketing, as widespread adoption is the best way to maximise the chance of success. For all its flaws, cryptocurrency (in particular anonymous ones like Monero) is a demonstration that this is possible: no government desires for its citizens to have a means to transact large sums anonymously online, yet Monero still exists. And as governments impose more restrictions on the internet, there'll be more and more demand for means to bypass those restrictions. |
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| ▲ | mulmen 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | By all means work on better privacy technology but censorship isn't a technology problem. It is a human problem. We cannot work around ignorance forever. We have to engage the system to affect real change. | |
| ▲ | NoMoreNicksLeft 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Over the last few years, it's become ever more apparent to me that technology can't fix what's broken. Even as we invent more ways to bypass censorship it becomes more so that people have less to say that I might want to hear with those technologies. And it's not just an ideological thing either, because best I can tell there's plenty of that stuff for whichever way you lean. What I mean is that people write less, there's less for me to read. But they have plenty of hustlely Youtube videos of the sort I have no inclination to watch. Less journalism, but plenty of opinions/editorials (I have enough opinions of my own, thanks). Less music... the whole recording industry seems to have imploded. We're not in danger of censorship so much as we're in danger of there no longer being anything for them to censor away from me. I don't think it's just me either, I know some of you are seeing the same things I am. | | |
| ▲ | esseph 4 days ago | parent [-] | | There is not "less music". There are more options than there have ever been to listen to music someone made around the world from you, even in real time. | | |
| ▲ | NoMoreNicksLeft 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Sure. I'm absolutely certain that there has always been music... so much 15th century Bulgarian folk music that it could fill a record store, for instance. But just because that music existed doesn't mean I have access to it or even awareness of it unless I am an academic researcher that pours years of my life into it. Your indy music stuff is just like that... but I have no desire to spend the next 10 years learning to dig it out of remote corners of the world just to listen to it. It's permanently and sociologically walled off from me in ways that I don't care to overcome. If I was interested in music discovery in 1980, how many record stores would I have had access to that I could walk into and just browse? How many of those are still around today? While radio was still pretty bad in 1980, it wasn't 12-stations-of-ClearChannel bad... I've heard those same 300 songs on an endless loop since I was a child. |
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| ▲ | r33b33 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which specific projects in particular? |
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| ▲ | basisword 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They represent their constituents - you are one of those. If the majority of their constituents support the legislation they're doing their job. Could you post their full response to you? Pretty shocking if they accused you of being a terrorist pedophile and worth making people aware of which MP this was! |
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| ▲ | mystraline 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Vouched. However you really need to name your MP. These political public figures need named and shamed for using binary fallacious logic like that. And barring listening to constituents, get rid of them. |
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| ▲ | laughing_man 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's just the way democracy works. What you have to do is convince your fellow voters. Do that and your MP will go along. Or be replaced. |
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| ▲ | gddgb 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
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