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[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Wow that a whole lot of several different things jammed together. This thesis would make a good article or book but as a shower thought it doesn’t really stand on its own.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's exactly the way David Bowie described how it would be back in the 90's, though.

[-] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

Is this a joke I don't get or is there any source of what did David Bowie said ? (o・ω・o)

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here you go. Interview he did in 1999. I can't find it right now, but this isn't the full interview; he goes into a bit more detail after this and mentions the bad things it would bring that we are starting to become more well known and widespread.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

What do you mean by "turn the tide for the better"?

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

For example, efforts in the areas of data protection, freedom of information, combating misinformation, improving working conditions in the online sector, creating fair digital remuneration models and so on and so forth. Pretty much things that the Electronic Frontier Foundation, NOYB and many other such organizations are committed to.

[-] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

The EFF is great. Perhaps going a little bit off-topic, the EFF creates plug-ins, but I wonder why the EFF doesn't create a privacy-based ecosystem similar to Proton?

A VPN provider or a system like Proton with encrypted mail, VPN, etc. is entirely based on trust and yet we trust our privacy almost entirely to for-profit corporations, which are inherently untrustworthy over the long haul. It would be cool if a non-profit with a long history of defending privacy, like the EFF, developed such a system. Mozilla seems to be moving in that direction, but it seems like a good fit for EFF too.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That would be great. Perhaps there is a lack of funding to make this possible. Or the EFF, as an NGO, simply does not want to become a provider itself in order to ensure that it remains neutral.

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