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The education France has provided me with would probably have cost me much more anywhere else in the world. I have always wished to stay here to work, if only t
by hiq 11y ago
The education France has provided me with would probably have cost me much more anywhere else in the world. I have always wished to stay here to work, if only to pay some of it back to my country. With a degree in the STEM fields, I expected it would be easy.
I did not expect political issues to get in the way. I did not think the misuses of our surveillance system would one day be even remotely on par with those of the US or the UK, to the point that I do not know today where my privacy is breached the more.
Of course we say "let's encrypt", we foster the use of Tor and the likes, but that misses the point. There should not even be a case for such a law which will help nothing but totalitarianism and is even a disincentive to investments in France. Still our politicians and administrations have paid little heed to La Quadrature du Net's and other actors' comments. Instead the government drafted this law in haste, seemingly to curtail the democratic process which should have taken place in its entirety, especially for a change that big regarding our freedom.
The way I see things, I have two options: leave for another country that still deems privacy as a fundamental liberty, or stay in France and get involved in politics in the hope that I can help reverse the current situation.
I do not think I have the skills to get involved in politics, nor do I have the desire to. I guess I will soon be part of their statistics on "brain drain", although right now I feel more ousted from France than attracted to anywhere else.
- etiam 11y agoWell articulated. I feel similarly about Sweden. But assuming one does pack up and leave, where would one go? Without doing any real research on it I would have hoped that France, with it's strong historical record on liberty, would be a reasonably good option within Europe, but it seems that may have been no more than wishful thinking on my part.
- leap_ahead 11y agoIt may soon be time for extraterrestrial emigration. This planet is done.
- jacquesm 11y ago> But assuming one does pack up and leave, where would one go? That is an extremely good question and one that I've spent considerable time and funds on trying to answer. In short: Nowhere. There isn't a country that does not have some critical flaw in their political system. If a country without such flaws were come into being it would not last because a country that would 'play nice' with its citizens and that would be efficient with its funds would be over-run by more aggressive neighbors unless it were heavily fortified by natural barriers. The countries that come closest to this in the world today are Iceland and Switzerland.
- rndmind 11y agoI'm afraid that the most pragmatic answer is indeed to encrypt your traffic. Use reverse ssh tunnels, use VPN tunnels, get involved in such efforts and you will find many others doing the same. It might be up to the users to maintain their own privacy.