Circa three hours ago, I made a post discussing how complicity through inaction threatens digital privacy. In the post, I made connections to the inactions of people during the 1930’s Germany. The post was removed for being posted in the wrong community:
Meanwhile, these are the rules:
I am not trying to pick a fight with the mods. I am trying to point out that there is no privacy without political discourse and action. That’s all I wanted to inspire discussion on.
Peace.
I’ll back you on this.
A few years ago, most of my privacy effort was focused on removing myself from increasing restrictions online. Even this last year, there’s been a concerted, worldwide push towards censorship and removing anonymity online.
That is dangerous, and left unchecked, leads to a future where anonymity is illegal.
Now, the majority of my effort focuses on privacy advocacy and showing up to city hall meetings to pester council members about this stuff. If we don’t do this, they will continue to erode our rights, because there is no pushback to it.
Privacy is political, and removing relevant discussion helps nobody.
Thank you very much for backing me, for your efforts and for putting all that so eloquently! I completely agree! Which isn’t to say that we don’t need forums where we share and teach each other the practical implementation of digital privacy, but this fight needs to be fought on both fronts.
Again, just to have it said out loud, I’m not trying to go behind the mods’ back or talk badly about them! I appreciate them taking on moderation of this extremely important community on their free time, and that, too, shouldn’t be diminished.