US Midterms Republican Bloodbath: A Digital Rights Perspective

The votes are still being tallied, but the outcome has already been determined. So, we look at digital rights.

https://www.freezenet.ca/us-midterms-republican-bloodbath-a-digital-rights-perspective/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #Democrats #DigitalRights #elections #FreeSpeech #midterms #moderation #Republicans #Section230 #Trump #US #USPol

Today I visited the local jail, where inmates await trial. There is a young man who was arrested at the age of 18, just barely considered an adult, who has been in this jail for nearly 3.5 years. This justice system is so slow.... And there is a gag order on his case.

#Arkansas
Garland County Detention Center

Inmate: Nathaniel Speed

#jail #censorship

Alt...

The jail's parking lot was full, so some visitors parked on the side of the road. Considering how many sheriff deputies are in the area, it is a risky move for a car to be parked in front of the jail with no license plate. When I entered the lobby, a man was being ordered by law enforcement to leave. The man was angry, and they appeared close to a physical fight. I prayed silently, calling on Jesus for peace, and the man turned and left.

A quotation from Henry Commager

   If you are going to penalize disloyalty, you must first determine what loyalty is; if you are going to silence nonconformity, you must determine what conformity is — and to what it conforms. If you are going to accept J. Edgar Hoover’s “easy test” of an organization: “Does it have a consistent record of support to the American viewpoint?” — you must determine what is the American viewpoint. If you are going to dismiss men from office or from teaching posts for membership in subversive organizations, you must eventually draw up a list not only of those that are subversive but of those that are patriotic. If you are going to silence dangerous ideas you must establish what ideas are safe.
   To whom shall we entrust these great and delicate tasks?

Henry Steele Commager (1902–1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1954), “The Necessity of Freedom,” Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #authority #censorship #conformity #disloyalty #heterodoxy #loyalty #nonconformity #orthodoxy #power #responsibility

Fighting Censorship - In Public

#censorship #PingPong #VPN #video #Epstein

The argument: cut off US internet access like Russia, then elites won't worry about Epstein files spreading. Video shows Hillary Clinton calling for social media censorship, likely because her husband and Bill Gates were exposed too quickly.

#EpsteinFiles #Censorship #Clinton #InternetFreedom #Exposed

Burning In Russia:
Lukoil's Largest Refinery

The NORSI refinery is Russia's fourth-largest refinery and second-largest gasoline producer.

--- Censorship In Russia ---

Russians could be penalized for sharing this video online, but there is no penalty for watching it.

#censorship #Russia #oil #Нефть #news #Новости #war #Ukraine

B... but... BlueSky is decentralized! It really is!

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-blocks-links-to-major-leak-of-dhs-data/

#bluesky #mastodon #fediverse #fedi #censorship

I'm trying to detect MTA-STS #censorship affecting Proton Mail and other popular email providers. I've set up an #OONI Run link that can detect and document blocking, I could use your help running it!
https://run.ooni.org/v2/10371

Ofcom Admits UK Age Verification Laws Have Failed

Age verification laws continue to fail wherever they are implemented and now Ofcom has basically admitted to such in the UK.

https://www.freezenet.ca/ofcom-admits-uk-age-verification-laws-have-failed/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Ofcom #OnlineSafetyAct #UK

🚨 Quad9 is leaving France on November 24

The privacy-focused DNS provider will stop serving French users rather than comply with a court order to block sites accused of streaming pirated tennis matches for beIN Sports.

⚠️ French users relying on Quad9 will need to switch DNS providers. An appeal is pending.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/2026/10/quad9-leaving-france-november-24-bein-dns-blocking.html

#Privacy #DNS #InternetFreedom #Censorship #CyberSecurity

https://github.com/p2plabsxyz/peersky-mobile/blob/main/docs/peerchat.md#moderation

> Each phone and desktop filters what it sends and what it receives, on its own. In a group, a message with threats, slurs or an adult-domain link is held back and a notice takes its place. So is a file whose name has them, since the name shows in the chat list, a search and a notification.
Is this hard-coded or per-group? If it's hard-coded then you are basically making the same mistake as #Lemmy.

@cypherpunk #PeerSky #censorship

Charter Statement On Bill C-34 is Weaponized Idiocy

The Canadian government published a charter statement on the age verification bill and it's just a sight to behold how bad it is.

https://www.freezenet.ca/charter-statement-on-bill-c-34-is-weaponized-idiocy/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #BillC34 #Canada #CharterOfRightsAndFreedoms #CivilRights #JusticeDepartment #PersonalInformation #SocialMedia

We can watch and share (if we want) this video evidence of what is happening in #StPetersburg - but the residents there cannot legally do so for fear of government penalties.

The result: Russians may not realize just how bad the war is getting. Out of sight, out of mind... until they see the destruction come upon them with their own eyes, but then it is too late.

The world continues to sleep as the destruction spreads.

#censorship

Age Verification Sparks Surge in VPN Interest: Research

New research is, yet again, confirming that whenever the government implements censorship laws, VPN interest soon follows.

https://www.freezenet.ca/age-verification-sparks-surge-in-vpn-interest-research/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #research #UK #VPN

New attack on St. Petersburg, Russia --- The target is again what most of the war is about: fuel / energy / oil - An oil terminal was hit.

Irony: The government forbids the residents of St. Petersburg from sharing this information online. But I am a citizen of the United States, so for now, I can legally share this. I hate #censorship.

#Russia #StPetersburg #Ukraine #news #oil #fuel #energy

Florida Age Verification Ruling Shocks, Baffles Experts

A ruling green lighting Florida's age verification law has left experts baffled after it completely redefines speech.

https://www.freezenet.ca/florida-age-verification-ruling-shocks-baffles-experts/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #court #Florida #ruling #US

Because of the Social Media Platforms (Ofcom Licensing) Bill in the uk, fediverse admins globally now have to get a license to be able to be connectable from the uk.

Edit: I forgot to add that this hasn't passed yet, but it probably will because politicians don't listen to us here

This is the bill: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4285

Please not that it says operating in the uk not operating from the uk, so it applies globally.

To get a license:
- You have to send snail mail to ofcom to get a license
- Employ a compliance team
- Keep all your logs
- Ensure that content made available does not
"incite criminal conduct, violence, hatred or public disorder." Whatever the fuck that means, it's so vague you can make that anything
- Ensure that content made available does not violate the laws of the uk... So you have to follow uk law outside of the uk now
- Ensure that there isn't misinformation, so I would just not have to post misinformation on my lemmy instance then? Or is that not enough for them? I can't remove stuff on other instances you fucking morons
- You have to dox all your users

The punishment for breaking any of these rules is as follows:
- An unlimited fine
- Up to two years of jail time
- A court order to have ISPs block you(fucking horrible my lemmy instance is in my wardrobe I don't want my internet cut off)
- And anything else the court " considers appropriate." Which is anything so just anything else

#fediadmin #fediverse #fuckwestminster #uk #authoritarianism #censorship #ofcom

"Roughly 15 million adult U.S. citizens lack a driver’s license, and a further 2.6 million lack any government photo ID; leaving large groups blocked from online content or services. The UK has a similar predicament: proof-of-age checks are often reliant on passports, driver’s licenses, or other recognized alternatives, which can pose unique challenges to people without these documents.

Much of the advocacy around age verification discusses the privacy harms of age verification. Yet these measures also threaten something more fundamental: equal access to information and the ability to exercise the right to freedom of expression.

Unfortunately, age verification systems foster unequal access to information and provide an asymmetric solution to find essential information, build community, and weigh in on public discourse. As governments and companies increasingly require users to prove their age before accessing online services, these individuals risk being excluded from large parts of the internet altogether."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/when-no-id-means-no-internet-age-verification-and-right-access-information

#SocialMedia #AgeVerification #Censorship #DigitalRights #FreedomOfExpression

Nitter currently has no legal counsel.

｢ I'm seeking funding and legal help to fight for the future of Nitter. If you're a lawyer, an organization, or anyone who can help, please get in touch. Any further news will be posted here ｣

https://nitter.net/

#musk #nitter #censorship

Earlier this week, we had the opportunity to participate in #EmpoderaLIVE 2026 and talk about how OONI tools and data are used to safeguard and defend human rights in Europe and beyond. 🐙
https://empodera.org/live/en/agenda

Warm thanks to Cibervoluntarios for organizing an amazing conference! ♥️

#ooni #censorship #opendata

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OONI presentation at #EmpoderaLIVE 2026 conference in Malaga, Spain

"On September 17, the European Commission proposed the EU KIDS Act, which would ban social media for children under 13 and allow teenagers to create their own accounts on social media only from the age of 15. For children aged 13 to 15, the officials proposed parental controls that enable guardians to set up mini accounts, which children access through the guardian's account. These mini accounts would come with limited social contacts and screen time of up to one hour per day, the EU Commission states.

Children aged 3 to 13 could not access social media, but they could "access specially designed child-friendly video-sharing services through accounts managed by their guardian," as mentioned on the official website. Platforms would also have to give parents an easy tool to restrict their own device to such services when handing it to a child, with the same one-hour daily limit. Platforms will also have to show that their services are age-appropriate and safe.

The Commission introduces a "safety-by-design" principle for social media, video-sharing platforms, online games, AI tools and chatbots used by minors. It bans addictive features, such as “recommender feeds based on profiling, infinite scroll without stopping points, reward tricks, push notifications during sleeping hours, and unsolicited contact from strangers”. AI agents and chatbots must not simulate relationships in ways that create emotional dependence.

Online services and app stores must use age-assurance tools, for example, the EU age-verification app. Social media and video-sharing platforms will have to verify a user's age when a new account is opened. For existing accounts, platforms need to estimate a user's age based on reasonable indicators, such as the account creation date or credit card details."

https://www.pathtopower.global/features/what-to-know-about-the-eu-plans-to-restrict-social-media-for-under-15s-dr-vasilis-ververis-answers-main-questionsnbsp

#EU #AgeVerification #SocialMedia #Censorship

Jack Dorsey’s #Bitchat disappears from app stores in #India after government order

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/jack-dorseys-bitchat-disappears-from-app-stores-in-india-after-government-order/

#privacy #cybersecurity #censorship

#Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/congress-has-another-site-blocking-bill-and-one-targets-vpns

#VPN #privacy #censorship

Why the Inquisition Built the Surveillance State

https://clairesalerno.substack.com/p/why-the-inquisition-built-the-surveillance

The real motive behind web 2.0, web 3.0, the cloud, AI, and panopticon nonsense is to identify and isolate heretics.

"They began with the network. If you can find one suspected heretic and interrogate them about their associations, who they speak to, who they share meals with, whose homes they visit and which neighbours are sympathetic, you can build a list of names."

"Then, you visit each of those people on the list and ask them the same questions. From this you can build a map of the entire community, identifying relationships and flagging suspects."

"They used the social fabric of communities and rewarded those who denounced others. They reduced penalties for cooperation, and built the assumption that staying silent is itself suspicious."

"They made it so the rational choice for any individual in the community is to inform on neighbours before neighbours inform on them. This creates a self-policing community. The community does the work, with the institution as the receiving authority."

"Think about that for a moment, because it describes the current digital surveillance apparatus exactly."

#Inquisition #Surveillance #Panopticon #Privacy #Cathars #Censorship

https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i2.2853

I remember a legislative hearing where the congress discussed the need for YouTube to censor all content that questions the veracity of heliocentrism and space programs. Perhaps this paper is following that trend?

#Censorship #FlatEarth #Cosmology #Globalism #Theology #Sociology #FreudianProjection

So I hasn’t realised that Mastodon GmbH (mastodon.social) also runs mastodon.online.

This is troubling, to say the least.

#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH

…Not least of all because the same company that runs the largest Mastodon instance runs more than one instance (why?)

But also the moderation policy that allows for the deletion of people’s posts. (Not even limiting the account or suspending it and asking the person who wrote the post to delete it but moderators outright deleting other people’s posts themselves. That sets a very dangerous precedent.)

#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH

RE: https://veganism.social/@Geri/116537676967800066

Folks, just a quick warning: If you’re against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, avoid mastodon.online.

They deleted two of Geri’s posts.

Geri is a wonderful activist and an inspiration from the UK who has braved arrest to shine a light on Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

Do give her a follow on her new account as she lost quite a few followers during the migration.

Also, to our friends in Gaza, please don’t create accounts on this server.

#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #censorship #mastodonOnline #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #GazaVerified #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Utah’s VPN Ban Law Goes Into Effect in Age Verification Escalation

Utah is attempting to cover up the failures of their age verification law by effectively banning VPNs.

https://www.freezenet.ca/utahs-vpn-ban-law-goes-into-effect-in-age-verification-escalation/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #encryption #law #legislation #US #Utah #VPN

"Make no mistake: These kinds of regulations are like a bad cold — they spread fast and are hard to shake. Governments and legislators around the world are constantly peeking over the fence at their neighbors to see what policies they’re rolling out and asking themselves whether they, too, can enact such laws.

You shouldn’t be surprised when more nations ask, If Turkey can do away with that pesky anonymous internet speech, why can’t we? In fact, the sentiment already exists in democratic nations freer than Turkey. In February, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called for an end to anonymous posts. “I want to see real names on the internet,” he said. “I want to know who is speaking.” Coincidentally or not, Germany also prosecutes insults to public officials. Not long after Merz’s statements, police investigated a Facebook comment calling Merz “Pinocchio.”

Anonymous online speech is in peril even here in the United States. In 2023, then-presidential candidate Nikki Haley walked back her demand that companies “verify every single person” using their platforms “by name.” The idea was toxic at the time, and she faced backlash among conservatives. But in the years since, that campaign has ballooned. The bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which enjoys Democratic and Republican support, as well as the constantly growing list of state-level age-verification bills in red and blue states are putting a real strain on Americans’ ability to remain anonymous, whether they are 16 years old or 60."

https://expression.fire.org/p/its-the-end-of-internet-anonymity

#Turkey #Anonymity #AgeVerification #FreedomOfExpression #Censorship #Surveillance

Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.

Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.

Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.

Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.

Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.

Usenet is the original free speech network.

Usenet is the original 'social network'.

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://eternal-september.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember #usenet #nntp #decentralized #censorship #retro #freespeech

+++ Ausics (Australia)

https://newsgroups.ausics.net

https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com

http://news.chmurka.net

http://csiph.com

https://dotsrc.org/usenet

https://www.eternal-september.org

https://news.gegeweb.org

https://news.hispagatos.org

https://news.nntp4.net

https://usenet.ovh

https://www.open-news-network.org

nntp://paganini.bofh.team

https://pasdenom.info/news.html

https://solani.org

The only drawback is this.

There is a troll farm on Usenet. The purpose of the troll farm is to annoy and harass people with fake, lunatic, and disingenuous posts to try to drive them off Usenet. Once you learn to identify such posters, just put them in your killfile spam filter and move on.

Some of the discussion threads are fake, generated by the troll farmers.

Also, if you ever post a good idea on Usenet, the troll farmers will launch a tirade of malicious criticism to try to drive you away.

It's kind of like the Fediverse. Lots of mockingbirds lurk to pounce on any sentiment disapproved by their masters.

Here's the upside. Censorship is almost impossible. If someone wants to see your articles, they will. Unlike the Fediverse, which champions comformity, viewpoint bullying, and mockingbird enforcement hall monitors at the instance level, any Usenet sysop engaging in gratuitous censorship would lose all respect in the eyes of the Usenet crowd.

#censorship #usenet #nntp #freespeech

Free Usenet Hosting Providers

+++ Ausics (Australia)

https://newsgroups.ausics.net

https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com

http://news.chmurka.net

http://csiph.com

https://dotsrc.org/usenet

https://www.eternal-september.org

https://news.gegeweb.org

https://news.hispagatos.org

https://news.nntp4.net

https://usenet.ovh

https://www.open-news-network.org

nntp://paganini.bofh.team

https://pasdenom.info/news.html

https://solani.org

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech

I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship

@selfhosted@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe infosec@a.gup.pe

NEWSCARD Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News

Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.

[git repo] https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard (use most recent version only)

With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.

With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.

With another short command, snarf a file from the network.

Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.

If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.

This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:

$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]
$~: card put [passphrase]

It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:

$~: card get [passphrase]
$~: card show [passphrase]

If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.

Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.

Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.

It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.

#NewsCard #Pastebin #Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #Encryption #Cryptography #Messaging #Anonymity #Protocols #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #BlackHackJack #Censorship #Retro #InfoSec #Ciphers #Codes #FOSS

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @crypto@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @selfhosting@a.gup.pe

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Playing card of the Jack of Clubs. The Jack is a moustached man in a black top hat and suit in a oval center cameo. The colors are inverted so that everything on the face is black except the lines which are white, like a charcoal cutout picture., giving it a retro digital appearance mixed with retro handicraft vibes.

NEWSCARD Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News

Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin.

[git repo] https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard (use most recent version only)

With a single command, name the card, snarf the file and encrypt it.

With another command, push the encrypted file to the public network.

With another short command, snarf a file from the network.

Only users knowing the name [key] of the record will be able to decrypt it.

If a strong passphrase is used to name the file, it will be very secure.

This is useful for quickly snarfing, encrypting, and publishing a text file:

$~: card enc [passphrase] [file]
$~: card put [passphrase]

It is useful for retrieving a text file with just a key:

$~: card get [passphrase]
$~: card show [passphrase]

If and when you want the general public to access the record just share the keyword.

Newscard uses nine (9) (NINE) layers of encryption with OpenSSL chacha20 cipher.

Newscard generates 9 each of: cipher keys, salts, key iteration parameters.

It would be nice if something like this were added to the ActivityPub protocol, such that keyword[@]host.url would do the same thing. Then secret text records could be stored securely for later retrieval or revelation.

#NewsCard #Pastebin #Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #Encryption #Cryptography #Messaging #Anonymity #Protocols #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #BlackHackJack #Censorship #Retro #InfoSec #Ciphers #Codes #FOSS

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @crypto@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe

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Playing card of the Jack of Clubs. The Jack is a moustached man in a black top hat and suit in a oval center cameo. The colors are inverted so that everything on the face is black except the lines which are white, like a charcoal cutout picture., giving it a retro digital appearance mixed with retro handicraft vibes.

Behold! The net cop gives expensive advice! You are basically requiring that I pay for yet another ERC20 cryptocurrency token just to send text messages.

From the Autonomi site:

"WHEN SOMEONE (A PERSON OR A COLLECTIVE) UPLOADS DATA THEY PAY A FEE TO DO SO."

"+1 Million tokens on offer for early contributors."

"MaidSafe are the team behind Autonomi ..."

Newscard has several selling points:

0. It's not for sale. Try that with Autonomi, Maidsafe, and a thousand others.
1. It is free, unlike your suggested cryptocurrency pump.
2. My solution is simple and elegant - naming small text files for retrieval.
3. Newscard uses existing infrastructure already in operation for decades.
4. Many mature client softwares and terminal emulators already exist for the task.
5. Newscard doesn't require investment or payment.
6. Newscard doesn't have an integrated, useless payment system.
7. Newscard is ANONYMOUS and uses The Onion Network by default.
8. Users won't lose their money when using Newscard.

And my Newscard solution doesn't require taking zillions of dollars from people who will likely never see a return on their token investment. Storage token sale schemes are a dime a dozen. I can't believe you think I have the credulity to swallow such a scheme.

For almost two decades running countless crews have claimed that they will, 'decentralize the Internet' if you give them your money.

Newsflash: The Internet already is decentralized. Decentralization is a basic part of the design of the Internet. It already routes around damage and censorship by default. Why do I need to pay for a crypto token for something that already exists? Decentralized Usenet has been in continuous operation for decades. I'm already using the 'decentralized Internet' for the Newscard protocol. I've been using the 'decentralized Internet' since forever! It doesn't need to be decentralized by crypto pump schemes. The Internet is already decentralized.

So we already have a decentralized Internet where data storage is abundant and cheap. And these token pumpers want to set themselves up as gatekeepers so we have to pay them to get the tokens to store our data. That is not decentralization. That is the essence of a centralized monetary gatekeeper!

You accused me of misusing Usenet. Yet I am only doing what people have done with Usenet for decades--posting encrypted messages. I'm not misusing Usenet. You're misusing my patience for cryptocurrency dumps and re-hashed token sales strategies.

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