Encryption. For the poors, that is.
It still sounds so insane. Imagine it being illegal for us two to share some public keys. It’s like banning fundamental maths
That already exists in one setting, the field of nuclear weapons design. See born secret.
Well okay then, use steganography.
Secure Space Encryptor (https://paranoiaworks.mobi/) is one that I know and they have source code published, although I personally don’t understand coding so I can’t guarantee how secure it is, but its been out for like a decade and I haven’t heard anything bad about it, and its on F-Droid.
They won’t know you are secretly sending an encoded “ATTACK AT DAWN” message hidden inside the cute cat photo. (I mean unless they just shut down the entire communications infrastructure and even ban mailing stuff, which is unfeasible because of the economy)
They’ll use ai to do pattern matches on available data to assassinate leaders of dissent or those capable of organizing resistance. Knowledge of encryption is uncommon enough of a population to be an acceptable cost.
Civillian use of Drones.
I’m very certain there’s gonna be a 9/11-like terrorist attack involving drones and then governments all around the world are gonna get extremely paranoid and just ban it unless you get a special permit that only big corporations can get.
I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen an assassination by drone from a nonstate actor yet. It’s cheap, would subvert many of the protections aimed at stopping shooters, and security likely wouldn’t react in time or have the equipment to effectively stop it.
I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen an assassination by drone from a nonstate actor yet.
There was the 2018 Caracas drone attack. Though that one is somewhat muddy in whether it actually was an assassination attempt or a false-flag attack done by the government itself.
That is interesting. I bet it was a legitimate attack, but the government’s attempt to cover up their embarrassment (particularly the fleeing “guard”) has muddied the water, as any cover-up will do. I must have missed that one at the time.
We don’t have the clearance. 🤷🏼♂️
Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.
I don’t usually like SovCits, but like maybe we should really start popularizing SovCit movements. 🤔
I always had some sympathy with them. It just seems like they want off this awful capitalistic treadmill we find ourselves on. Everyone always laughs and belittles them, but I’m always rooting for em just a lil bit
If they went and lived in some remote mountain village or something I wouldn’t mind.
But they claim all of this while driving without a licence or insurance. Would you be as sympathetic to their cause if they hit your car and cause serious damage?
I sort of understand their point but they’ve also been unimaginably selfish and entitled and that’s the part I can’t get behind. Also every single one of them is, without fail, an utter moron.
Don’t forget a huge part of the movement is people trying to evade child support
SovCits are not noble campaigners fighting against injustice. They are idiots deluded enough to think they’ve found the cheat code to the legal system by spouting the right string of nonsense.
They’re desperate and aware there’s something wrong with the system they’re in, without having the education or experience to realize that the people running it don’t actually care about the rules.
Are they anti-capitalist or anti-government? Maybe some are both, but it seems like many of these types are probably capitalist and don’t want the government to get in the way of corporations screwing people.
In the Netherlands that’s already a thing for anyone aged 14 and up
Really so if your walking your dog you need your ID?
In Germany it‘s similar. You are required to have an ID with you. It’s not strictly illegal though to not have it on you but if you happen to have business with police (be it an accident, random traffic stop or you having part in illegal activities), when you don’t have it on you, they can make you come to the police station with them to confirm your identity, even if they wouldn’t otherwise.
You are required to be able to ID yourself, “Ausweispflicht”, but that does not require you to carry your physical ID with you when leaving your house, it just requires you to own said ID once you reach the age of 16.
https://www.deurag.de/blog/mitfuehrpflicht-des-personalausweises/
The cops will still take you with them to the station when you don’t have an ID to show if they ask for it. You are by law required to identify yourself with a physical ID.
So yes, while it’s not illegal to not carry your ID on you, it’s still to your own detriment if you cannot produce it.
Not exactly, there are some requirements but if they’re met (you commit an offense, or in high suspicion, e-bike controls), and you can’t show ID it’s a fine
But essentially yes
And it hurts absolutely nobody.
Turns out, the problem isn’t carrying ID, the problem is US cops.
Lots of butt hurt Americans downvoting here
Or, you know, just being alive without them.
Private ownership.
Why would you even want this, when you can book it as a service without all the hassles and this highly criminal “privacy”. What are you? A drug dealer? A pedophile? Both?Ah yes. the rise of neo-communism. Soon the circle will be complete.
Free expression, freedom of speech. Privacy. Home ownership.
I don’t think americans will have to wait 50 years :(
What do you mean by the home ownership piece?
The billionaires paying for campaign contributions of most politicians in modern democracies (seem to) want to get back to having “company towns” for each of the business they own.
Private equity figured out that the 2008 panic happened because people were defaulting on mortgages. So they just went straight into the housing market as landlords. They’ll eventually lobby congress to make it illegal for the poor to own housing
Emulators. There’s a crack down that continues to happen as old systems become streaming services.
Dissent against the government.
Already illegal here in the uk to protest climate change.
Or to protest against genocide
…in that you can go to prison for expressing support for proscribed terrorist organisations as determined in UK law, and “Palestine Action” recently became one of them. For the avoidance of doubt, I tell you this purely for information and warning purposes only, and to help you, if you’re British, avoid ending up in prison for expressing support for the proscribed organisation “Palestine Action”.
Also to be clear: personally, I don’t know much about that organisation beyond what’s clear from their name and that they recently became proscribed.
Don’t for a minute think that that doesn’t include anonymously online. It absolutely does include what you write on the internet. It also includes (with lesser sentences) wearing clothing that supports a proscribed organisation or posting a picture of such clothing online or in print.
Historically there never was a right to free speech in the UK, although that changed somewhat with the introduction of the European Convention on Human Rights (which we helped draft post war and which has been extended since), but it is definitely illegal in the UK to express support in any way, including online, for proscribed terrorist organisations.
You can read more about the 84 proscribed organisations and sentences of up to 14 years in prison here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proscribed-terror-groups-or-organisations--2/proscribed-terrorist-groups-or-organisations-accessible-version
The list includes organisations assessed by the UK government as terrorists, such as a lot of Islamist organisations, some far right groups and a handful of separatist movements.
Offenses include being reckless as to whether you might encourage others to support a proscribed organisation. So be careful about what you say and how you say it. Consider carefully whether you might encourage support for a proscribed organisation and don’t do that.
Fun fact: if the website you’re visiting includes a free font hosted by Google, the website and page you were accessing are sent to Google alongside your IP address. Google assert that they don’t use that data to personalise your ads, but they don’t mention not using it for other purposes as far as I recall, and Google also dropped their “Don’t be evil” motto. At first I found that funny (who proposes that in a meeting and how do you come to agree to drop not being evil?!), but increasingly I realise that it wasn’t just an absurd decision but a serious policy shift.
Fun fact: if the website you’re visiting includes a free font hosted by Google, the website and page you were accessing are sent to Google alongside your IP address.
Are you sure about this? Do you have proof? Working as an SEO for ten years I never heard this. A user asks the website to load a page which is on the website’s host servers (maybe Amazon, maybe private, etc).
The website would use an API to make a call to google’s servers and ask for the resources to load the font and then load the font once the resources were authenticated and sent. There should be no reason to send the accessing user’s data to Google for the web font because it should all be done from the host’s servers to request the font and load it and then it displays that to the user. It’s not like the user needs to load the font, the host does, and the user is just asking the host.
Maybe there’s something I’m missing and never learned though, so if you can provide documentation for me to read then I would greatly appreciate it.
Liberty and privacy. And it will take way less than 50 years.
Unlocking your bootloader
🇪🇺 By October it will be illegal to view porn with an unlocked bootloader
In the US: Not wholly illegal but I predict erosion of the 4th amendment under the guise of keeping the country safe. I predict the definition of a “reasonable” search and seizure will expand.
Across the world: as someone else mentioned, encryption is going to start getting a lot more attention as well.
I also predict erosion of 2nd Amendment for non-whites
You mean like the black panthers and the nra?
LGBTQ+
I’m not any of it, but I do support it.
Cash. Every transaction will be online, so it can be tracked
fingers crossed for child marriage becoming illegal (and in less than 50 years. the sooner the better)
Being trans, wait you said 50 years not 0.5? Haha lol we’re so fucked
Don’t be silly. The concept of being trans is a relatively new thing, by historical timelines. Fuck me, older black grandparents lived “Whites only” signs. I’ve seen them.
F@g bashing was a legit sport when I was a teen. Jump dudes coming out of gay bars? Boys will be boys! And no one objected. What are you, a f@g?
Two steps forwards, one step back. Rinse and repeat.
And we ALL have to fight. Men had to fight to the death for labor rights, now they got a holiday, though we’ve forgotten what it was about.
Fighting might mean your personal extinction. Pick a fucking side, pick up a rifle, be there when you’re needed and train. I train.
That pic of me is not a fucking uniform. It’s not a “cool guy” pose. (But you gotta admit, it’s a great pic!) It’s actually ME, working to learn clothing and weather and arms and tool belts and ammo and whatever fucking works in the field. I strap on my AR and pistol, run and jump and sweat and shoot while shaking like a fucking leaf. It takes hard work and sweat. If anyone is on the fence about getting armed and trained, best time to plant a tree is now.
Gonna let the red hats have a monopoly on violence? Nah. Not me. As for me and my house, we serve John Browning (Gun nerd joke, apologies. TWO WORLD WARS!)
I should note; Had hell finding a pic of “liberal armed protestors”. Pic I found, meh, those guys aren’t looking too “practical”, let alone “tactical”. Didn’t used to be hard to find such pics. Huh. Make of that what you will.
Final note if one wants to get strapped: PRACTICE IN ALL CONDITIONS. The slightest discomfort gets magnified 10x over a very short period of time when the going gets rough.
(Sorry OP, just venting.)
The concept of being trans is a relatively new thing, by historical timelines.
The historical record for what we would now call transgender people goes back over 4,000 to Ancient Babylon. And that’s just the written historical record.
Democracy was also an old concept. But democracy didn’t get popularized until very recently.
Yeah, we just called trans folk hermaphrodites or transexuals or some other words than we use now. Language has been fluid but the concept is not new. Hell, I grew up familiar with it and I was pretty naive.
Hermaphrodites are a completely different thing. They are not trans, well I guess they could be but hermaphrodite is not what people used to call trans people.
Ah fuck, I knew someone would be around to pick on that.
Trans rights in Western culture is a new thing we gotta fight for. Fuck me, gay rights is a relatively new thing we still gotta fight for. Didn’t read my post? Were you not around when gay marriage was a sticking point? Like, 15-years ago? I know goddamned well the concept has existed since we were monkeys.
Your comment is a perfect example of why conservatives hate holier-than-thou liberals. Pick up a rifle or STFU.
Maybe edit the wording in the post to clarify that instead of writing this response.
Sorry, but the attitudes you expressed have directly hurt the trans community in recent years. Hell, in the recent Skremetti case that saw the erosion of trans rights, even the liberal justices were completely ignorant about just how far back in time trans people go. The idea that trans people are a new phenomenon is directly harmful to our rights and safety.
Look, fine if you want to LARP as an armed defender of freedom. But ultimately you’re just playing dress up. You may style yourself a defender of the rights of minorities, but you’re giving advice that is only applicable to someone in your position. 2nd Amendment rights effectively do not exist for members of many minority groups. What you’re allowed to get away with because you’re a middle aged cis white guy will result in members of other groups getting immediately shot by police.
Nah we’ll win
We got this, and we got eachother.
If right-wing nutjobs keep running the government I am going to say “birth control” and “sodomy” are on the chopping block. Hopefully by 50 years this won’t still be the issue but its what they want now. Just to note that the old “sodomy” laws made everything that wasn’t PIV illegal. So if you like oral sex that will be illegal now. Sorry everyone no more fun
