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You are not free to perceive any information. In our society, some people have the right to decide whether or not you can watch a particular football game, look
by choeger 2y ago
You are not free to perceive any information. In our society, some people have the right to decide whether or not you can watch a particular football game, look at a particular image, or know a particular prime number, as ridiculous as that sounds. Freedom of information consumption is an illusion from the days when law enforcement in the internet wasn't a thing.
Industry and state have a large interest in this and in just a few years they will have total information dominance. This won't require awkward measures like attacks on DNS or VPN providers. You simply won't be able to execute unvetted software soon. Chat control is just an example and the first step. The principle will be: You can only run software that fulfills all legal requirements, especially if said requirements monitor your well-behavedness.
- walterbell 2y agoOverreach leads to withdrawal of consent by the governed. https://wordhistories.net/2023/12/20/iron-hand-velvet-glove/ https://wordhistories.net/2023/12/20/iron-hand-velvet-glove/
- superb_dev 2y ago> You simply won't be able to execute unvetted software soon. Yes. Every microcontroller will phone home to verify your software’s signature.
- popcalc 2y agoApple has been doing this for almost a decade in the OS.
- superb_dev 2y agoNot really though right? At least not for macOS. You can easily get around that, or just run linux.
- popcalc 2y agoYes, in MacOS. https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/393689/how-to-stop-catalina-from-contacting-apple-servers-when-executing-programs https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/393689/how-to-stop... 99.5% of users aren’t developers and will not attempt to modify anything.
- jiehong 2y agoThen perhaps we need to keep our buggy and memory unsafe softwares so that we can exploit them ourselves to bypass those in some cases. How ironic