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Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Time for everyone to adopt uncensorable mesh networks for texting

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz -2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh you sweet summer child. You really have no idea what living under a hostile government actually means. Your "uncensorable" networks work as long as as the state respects people's freedoms and allows them to exist. It's easy to be a "rebel" when you have nothing to fear. An ability to freely exchange and access information is what fascist totalitarian governments fear and fights against the hardest.

They won't even need to break the encryption or censor it or anything. It would just be made illegal, and given that it involves radio transmissions - easily detectable.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You know, that "sweet summer child" shit is condescending and unnecessary. Maybe don't be a jerk to people

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

It is like aposematic coloration: It lets us know we don't have to bother reading the rest of the comment.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yes I’m aware there are countermeasures.