Post #1554577

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

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@hazelnot@sunbeam.city 2026-04-22 10:30

@hipsterelectron oh huh, in my mind the internet is just, when a bunch of computers are connected across the world Fair enough, thanks for the explanation!

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@worik@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 22:57

@hipsterelectron @hazelnot > in particular the internet is a set of protocols and standards all of which enable warrantless surveillance No. The Internet is IP which is simply a packet switching network. It is easier in some ways, and harder in others to inspect those packets for surveillance than it is/was for snail mail, but I think you are exaggerating.

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