Wandering Adventure Party

@pkraus @smn @wwahammy exactly. These laws must be opposed at every juncture. When risk devolves to individual users, we've lost.

@crypticrainfall @wwahammy @smn well to begin with I'm going to see what the EFF have to say, and other freedom and privacy activists. They'll have been applying some expertise to the matter.

@crypticrainfall @wwahammy @smn I'm really regretting stepping away from FLOSS when I did. I hadn't realised just how urgent the issue was going to become. I feel like we've somewhat sleepwalked into this, despite the warnings from folks like Eben Moglen, because we trusted too much in democracy and underestimated the nefarious goals of corporations like Meta. And still the seriousness doesn't reach the general population. Literally nobody know on other platforms or irl talks about this; if I raise it, it's crickets. They just don't care.

( Edit: I hadn't realised Moglen was yet another problematic individual in the Free Software hierarchy. So that's unfortunate. )

@wwahammy @ShadSterling @smn well yeah. Slightly different from where I sit (in Australia, having seen the 'sovereign citizens' on the socials, whining about face masks and traffic violations, rather than the political figures. They're just absent. )

@wwahammy @ShadSterling @smn we are rapidly getting to a point (some would argue past a point) where resistance, for us white folks who've had little skin in the game, is going to mean real consequences and confronting the fact that the law is an ass.

@ShadSterling @smn @wwahammy it's a nightmare. What's particular irking me rn is that the 'Freedom' brigade that have been SO vocal during the height of covid are now totally silent on draconian laws that will actually limit real freedom of speech. (surprise, surprise).

@smn @wwahammy I don't understand how California gets to mandate this. People can download software from wherever they want. Host your project outside of California.

@wwahammy why the fuck are people complying in advance? Where is the commitment to software freedom?