"We have a DIY media space ... Where people are talking on the internet, people are making their own camcorder tapes.

And what do they decide to call this thing? ... They called it an information revolution.

... Because information ... is stuff, that can be bought and sold.

This was not an information revolution, this was a communications revolution. This was people talking to one another. We were the content of this thing."

Douglas Rushkoff, #DisinfoCon, 2000

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=tn_fdSyZFL0

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"Of course any rules about blocking a communications medium will have a free-speech dimension – how could it not? And of course any dispute relating to globe-spanning medium will have a national sovereignty dimension.

How could it not?

So if every internet fight is a speech fight and a sovereignty fight, which side should we root for? Here's my proposal: we should root for human rights."

#CoryDoctorow, 6 Nov, 2024

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso

#HumanRights #FreeSpeech #DigitalSovereignty

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"Telegram bills itself as an encrypted messaging app, but that's only sort of true. Telegram does not encrypt its group-chats, and even the encryption in its person-to-person messaging facility is hard to use and of dubious quality."

#CoryDoctorow, 2024

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso

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#Telegram #encryption #E2EE

"There's no such thing as an internet policy fight that isn't about national sovereignty and speech, and when the two collide, we should side with human rights over sovereignty. Sovereignty isn't a good unto itself – it's only a good to the extent that is used to promote human rights.

In other words: 'Sovereignty, sure, but human rights even moreso'."

#CoryDoctorow, 2024

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/06/brazilian-blowout/#sovereignty-sure-but-human-rights-even-moreso

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