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“Thiel's secret society, 20 years of silence, cracked open because someone left the member directory in a webpage's source code. The panopticon-builders can't run a firewall.

#Politics #Surveillance #Resist #Democracy #P...”

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#Petition in #Canada to stop bill c-22. Very important for #privacy! Sign here ⬇️ and share!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416

#internet #rights #eff #vpn #quebec #ontario #bc #alberta #saskatchewan #manitoba #yukon #nwt #nunavut #pei #newbrunswick #labrador #newfoundland #novascotia #laws #c22 #billc22 #encryption #canpoli #cdnpoli #politics #politique #politiqueqc #carney #markcarney #lpc #CyberRights #cybersecurity #internetsecurity #webprivacy #internetprivacy #metadata #democracy #news #trending

Pelosi, on gutting the Hate Crimes Act to pass it faster: "I won't pass it in 100 years because I'm not ever taking out trans." She held the line when it cost her. The line held. https://twp.ai/4hrjsy #TransRights #Resist #Democracy #Politics #Pride #QueerNews #LGBTQ

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RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116785353154805031

Non solo libri: come prendere in prestito una macchina da cucire dalla biblioteca può migliorare la democrazia.

Il futuro delle biblioteche... in Finlandia

#biblioteche #democrazia #bibliotecaDegliOggetti #MacchineDaCucire #Finlandia #libraries #democracy #LibraryOfThings #Objethèque #BibliothèqueDObjets

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Stefan Bohacek » 🌐 2026-06-21
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online

"Today, many people in cities live in small homes, and they might need a sewing machine only once a year. So why buy one?

People prefer not to spend their own money when they can access a sewing machine for free, funded through their taxes."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland

#libraries #finland

The plot against Palestine Action

"British courts have upheld the proscription of Palestine Action & sentenced four of its activists as terrorists."

"A series of abuses of legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined."

Official repression culminated this week with the Court of Appeal upholding the government’s 2025 "proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organization."

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #palestine #palestineAction #news #democracy .

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Palestine Action demo

Was Hobbes Right in Leviathan? Only partially.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/hobbes-was-right?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #blog #history #reading #substack #monarchy #democracy #history #books #politics #governance #empire #nature #foundation #anarchy #Leviathan #Hobbes #violence

Elizabeth May is trying to warn Canadians what the government is doing to our #democracy, and I am having trouble uploading this video here. C-22 is a #tech #surveillance
Bill that is going to destroy our country. #cdnpoli #Canada

https://bsky.app/profile/lalegault.bsky.social/post/3moluyjiofk26

Data Privacy is not just about privacy.

Data privacy is also about safety, about democracy, about diversity, about equality, about empathy, and, perhaps most important of all, about consent.

When you fight for privacy rights, you also fight for all of the above. You fight for a better freer and safer society for all.

#Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy

Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people.

Encryption is not a crime,
encryption is a shield.

Encryption protects you from cyberattack, identity theft, discrimination, doxxing, stalking, sexual violence, physical harm, and much more.

For safety, for privacy, for democracy, and for all our human rights, it's critical that we defend our right to encryption.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/

#Privacy #Encryption #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Democracy #RootForE2EE

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@metacurity/116764928310205984

You know what they call someone who sits at the same table as a fascist? A fascist.

“…Kaja Kallas - Vice President, European Commission. Fmr. Prime Minister, Estonia…”

CC @EUCommission Hey folks, how was Peter Thiel’s fascist party? Did Kaja enjoy it? Did she learn anything she can bring back to the EU?

#fascism #PeterThiel #KajaKallas #EUCommission #Palantir #humanRights #democracy

Metacurity » 🌐 2026-06-17
@metacurity@infosec.exchange

Quite the attendee list for Thiel's masters of the universe event. Some people who are genuinely good are on this list.

https://github.com/nzaki-dev/dialog

Report: Palestine Action : The UK Court of Appeal says the govt's Palestine Action ban is lawful.

It overturned an earlier High Court ruling that the govt's ban was "unlawful & discriminatory".

The High Court had said the govt ban was a breach of the European Convention of Human Rights regarding freedom of expression & peaceful assembly & also was inconsistent with UK govt policy.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-court-appeal-rules-favour-government-ban-palestine-action-uk-court-appeal-overturns

#UKPol #USPol #EUPol #news #palestine #palestineAction #Autocracy #Democracy #racism .

You Can’t Have Both Democracy and Billionaires

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/you-cant-have-both-democracy-and-billionaires

#politics #democracy #classwar #culture #wealth

In a parallel universe somewhere, all of the non-fascist-led Western nations conspired together behind the scenes to use the push for age verification as a way to free their citizens from all US platforms, and migrate them to the fediverse and FOSS en massé in a well conceived & perfectly executed stunning maneuver.

#politics #privacy #democracy

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

#AI data centers stealing your job, stealing our water, taking our electricity, building more effing carbon burners and stealing our climate, stealing our data, stealing privacy, stealing our democracy.

JFC

NO.

Time to end this nonsense.

Seriously. No. Let's not do this.

Let's STOP this, end this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/130-billion-in-data-center-projects-blocked-by-protests-so-far-this-year/

#survielence #privacy #democracy #inflation #coup #techBro

A quotation from Adlai Stevenson

If I were to attempt to put my political philosophy tonight into a single phrase, it would be this: Trust the people. Trust their good sense, their decency, their fortitude, their faith. Trust them with the facts. Trust them with the great decisions. And fix as our guiding star the passion to create a society where people can fulfill their own best selves — where no American is held down by race or color, by worldly condition or social status, from gaining what his character earns him as an American citizen, as a human being and as a child of God.

Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1956-09-13), “Democratic and Republican Administrations,” Pennsylvania Farm Show, Harrisburg

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #character #democracy #opportunity #progress #thepeople #wethepeople #equality

But even Christians have their idols (dogmas, creedos, liturgies, customs, rituals) that blind them to the one and only one truth.

"My people perish for lack of knowledge ..."

Instead many Christians believe they have chosen the right narrow path, which is just one lane in the broad road superhighway to hell.

Real democracy for electing rulers is done by lottery, not by party ballot. Every citizen puts a name in the ballot box and then a random name is selected, and the candidate is examined. If the candidate passes muster, then he is the one put in the office. No campaigns, no campaign finance, no speeches, none of that garbage has any place in actual democracy.

The Bible has multiple instances in the law of God for casting lots (lottery) to choose a leader or successor for an office. That is real democracy. The Greeks called ballots for party or public candidate by a Greek word: Oligarchy.

Everyone who calls elections by the name of democracy doesn't know what democracy is. Democracy is not the 'choice of the people' but rather the 'random choice of God' from among the people. This is how the Greeks and Israelites originally practiced democratic elections. The idea of 'running for office' was anciently seen as a form of insurrection or oligarchy, not democracy.

#Democracy #Elections #Oligarchy #Vote #Government