Comment by wartywhoa23
13 hours ago
When all the remaining freedom fighters will flee out of all the oppressive states into the last remaining citadel of human rights, which may well turn out to be some drifting icefield in Arctic, and the oppression finally catches them up there, is there any plan B for the humankind?
Why are we giving up. Shouldn't we stand up against Oppressive governments and Corporations.
That's the point I implied! We absolutely should, and must. But the only viable way to do so seems to be by following Ghandi's principles of personal non-violent sabotage against the oppressor, which requires unity and cooperation between people, and that, alas, is very questionable these days. Half of us won't even admit they're oppressed! When a single shoemaker makes two left shoes instead of a normal pair the opressor orders, he's out to look for a new job. When every shoemaker out there makes only left shoes, the oppressor has to go f2k himself and learn some craft or manners.
Old ways that seemed to be working, like democratic elections? I don't think so. Not anymore.
I don't think one thing will solve it, but everyone who knows better can contribute in their own. For example by teaching people about privacy, encryption and free software. Writing books, doing podcasts aimed at the general public to promote privacy tech. Talking to your local government and municipalities, become the local expert and proposing policies.
> Shouldn't we stand up against Oppressive governments and Corporations.
How? Governments have the monopoly on violence through their control of the police and military, and corporations bribe the governments in power to do their bidding and also control the media apparatus via which the voting population makes their democratic decisions, so you get this corrupt symbiotic relationship between the first and second estate (the government and wealthy elite private sector) to keep the third estate (common population) oppressed.
So how do you actually coordinate hundreds of millions of people towards a single goal to "fight" against and apparatus of oppression with an order of magnitude more kinetic strike, intelligence gathering and propaganda capabilities than the common folk?
People keep fantasizing about the French revolution and guillotines, but King Louis XVI didn't have Air Force One, doomsday bunkers in New Zeeland, AC-130s, Predator, Reaper and Anduril drones to protect him. The force disparity between the ruling elite and peasantry is now like that meme of hydrogen bomb versus coughing baby.
That'd be the textbook definition of hitting rock bottom, the last of the bottoms, and hitting rock bottom is a plan B in itself.
The One place that has not been corrupted by Capitalism… Space!
I can hear Tim Curry's delivery of that in my head. So good.
Context, for the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM
Looks like Musk and Bezos are going to beat you to it.
Capitalism didn't corrupt privacy. Literally every major messaging and smartphone maker integrated e2e encryption because the user wants it. It is government regulations, that wants to kill privacy. Which is not free markets or capitalism, this is more socialism.
Capitalism didn't corrupt privacy.
Meta, Microsoft, and Google's extensive user tracking beg to differ.
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Satellites?
Satellite operators are still required to comply with the Federal Wiretap Act (and equivalent in every other country of the world).
The result is a less-than-optimal network that requires routing communications through a ground station (where it can be intercepted) even when it's technically feasible (and optimal) to use point-to-point communications.
The resulting technical solutions (at least) double the bandwidth and processing required by the network, and bandwidth/processing are critical resources for communications satellites. These requirements can make or break the economic feasibility of a proposed system.
Can be jammed and/or destroyed.