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What would you do if your child was arrested for defending themselves from bullies?
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https://thefreethoughtproject.com/9-year-old-boy-arrested-playground/
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https://thefreethoughtproject.com/9-year-old-boy-arrested-playground/
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WATCH: Autistic 9-Year-Old Boy Cuffed, Brought to Jail for Allegedly Defending Against Bullies
A 9-year-old boy with autism got a hefty dose of the police state after his father says he defended himself against bullies on the playground.
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Every time police threaten to quit doing their job we hear how it'll cause utter chaos, and yet every single time it never happens..
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/crime-drastically-drops-arrests-atlanta/
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/crime-drastically-drops-arrests-atlanta/
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As Cops in Atlanta Refuse to Do Their Jobs, Crime Plummets Anyway, Chaos Does NOT Ensue
Cops are refusing to do their jobs and this is sending arrests plummeting, but there appears to be no uptick in violence or criminal behavior.
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If you're concerned with the new anti-encryption bill in the USA, there's a few things to do to help yourself a great deal later.
If you aren't already on a full-disk encrypted system running a FOSS operating system, go and get one now. Manjaro Arch, OpenBSD (or any BSD, really), Debian, Linux Mint, and so forth are dependable and secure operating systems. When installing, choose full-disk Luks2 encryption (with LVM if available) on install.
IF YOU ARE USING WINDOWS 10 STOP USING IT. BITLOCKER IS ALREADY BARELY BETTER THAN NOTHING, AND IT WILL BE THE FIRST ENCRYPTION SYSTEM TO FALL TO THE BILL IF PASSED. WINDOWS 10 IS INSECURE, UNSTABLE, AND UNRELIABLE NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT. STOP FUCKING USING WINDOWS 10! You are doing yourself less than no favors by using Windows 10. MacOS users, I'm looking at you too!
Keep up with your operating system's developer's news. If they state they are going to release an update in accordance with the bill, do not update. Even if not, turn off automatic updating if not already disabled. Every time an update rolls out, wait a while and pay attention to forums and other communities based around the OS, especially open-source development communities. If they start saying that their encryption has been compromised, don't update!
While not entirely necessary, I think it is worthwhile to keep a few full-featured installation images of other operating systems (full-featured, as in not the 'netinst' or 'minimal' versions) handy in case the developers decide to be massive retards and violate everything FOSS stands for by forcing an update that compromises encryption.
Format all of your removable flash drives (SD cards, thumb drives and so forth) to ext4 with Luks2 encryption. Not only will it be unmountable for everything but GNU/Linux systems, it will be as solidly encrypted as your own machine.
If you haven't done it already, download and install Tor Browser from torproject.org, and learn how to use it properly. Additionally, Freenet, Onionshare, I2P, Gnutella, Retroshare, and so forth are quite useful. Tor is, in essence, the 'de facto' anonymity network. It's been time-tested since the nineties and penetration-tested by countless experts. While not foolproof, it makes censorship and deanonymization a whole lot harder.
What will stop this bill is widespread disobedience and anger. If the noballs politicians are shown that nobody with a computer system and half a brain will comply with such a ridiculous law, so much so to the point of protests and such, they might think twice.
If you aren't already on a full-disk encrypted system running a FOSS operating system, go and get one now. Manjaro Arch, OpenBSD (or any BSD, really), Debian, Linux Mint, and so forth are dependable and secure operating systems. When installing, choose full-disk Luks2 encryption (with LVM if available) on install.
IF YOU ARE USING WINDOWS 10 STOP USING IT. BITLOCKER IS ALREADY BARELY BETTER THAN NOTHING, AND IT WILL BE THE FIRST ENCRYPTION SYSTEM TO FALL TO THE BILL IF PASSED. WINDOWS 10 IS INSECURE, UNSTABLE, AND UNRELIABLE NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT. STOP FUCKING USING WINDOWS 10! You are doing yourself less than no favors by using Windows 10. MacOS users, I'm looking at you too!
Keep up with your operating system's developer's news. If they state they are going to release an update in accordance with the bill, do not update. Even if not, turn off automatic updating if not already disabled. Every time an update rolls out, wait a while and pay attention to forums and other communities based around the OS, especially open-source development communities. If they start saying that their encryption has been compromised, don't update!
While not entirely necessary, I think it is worthwhile to keep a few full-featured installation images of other operating systems (full-featured, as in not the 'netinst' or 'minimal' versions) handy in case the developers decide to be massive retards and violate everything FOSS stands for by forcing an update that compromises encryption.
Format all of your removable flash drives (SD cards, thumb drives and so forth) to ext4 with Luks2 encryption. Not only will it be unmountable for everything but GNU/Linux systems, it will be as solidly encrypted as your own machine.
If you haven't done it already, download and install Tor Browser from torproject.org, and learn how to use it properly. Additionally, Freenet, Onionshare, I2P, Gnutella, Retroshare, and so forth are quite useful. Tor is, in essence, the 'de facto' anonymity network. It's been time-tested since the nineties and penetration-tested by countless experts. While not foolproof, it makes censorship and deanonymization a whole lot harder.
What will stop this bill is widespread disobedience and anger. If the noballs politicians are shown that nobody with a computer system and half a brain will comply with such a ridiculous law, so much so to the point of protests and such, they might think twice.
Fuck The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act!!
The US government wants to bend you over again, while we're distracted with covid-19 and civil unrest a new bill killing end-to-end encryption is to be voted on, without your action it could very well pass, here's what you can do about it. If you're a US citizen contact your senators and tell them to vote NO on the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act!!
https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
This law would establish a precedent for other countries to follow and for further legislation to be passed, such as requiring encrypted data to be unencrypted on demand (like in Australia), or outlawing encryption outright. The EFF has already spoken out about this and it's even worse than the EARN IT Act from three months ago. For these reasons, even non-Americans should be concerned. It does nothing to stop criminals as it's supporters suggest, all this bill does is shit on the privacy of law abiding citizens who use American software. There are obvious security concerns with having a built-in backdoors and this bill would set further precedent that encryption and privacy are bad/illegal ushering in a new age in which privacy should no longer be expected.
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. (thanks Eric)
This bill takes away your right to privacy, everyone needs to act now, make your voice heard!
Full bill: https://the-eye.eu/S.4051_Lawful_Access_to_Encrypted_Data_Act.pdf
The US government wants to bend you over again, while we're distracted with covid-19 and civil unrest a new bill killing end-to-end encryption is to be voted on, without your action it could very well pass, here's what you can do about it. If you're a US citizen contact your senators and tell them to vote NO on the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act!!
https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
This law would establish a precedent for other countries to follow and for further legislation to be passed, such as requiring encrypted data to be unencrypted on demand (like in Australia), or outlawing encryption outright. The EFF has already spoken out about this and it's even worse than the EARN IT Act from three months ago. For these reasons, even non-Americans should be concerned. It does nothing to stop criminals as it's supporters suggest, all this bill does is shit on the privacy of law abiding citizens who use American software. There are obvious security concerns with having a built-in backdoors and this bill would set further precedent that encryption and privacy are bad/illegal ushering in a new age in which privacy should no longer be expected.
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. (thanks Eric)
This bill takes away your right to privacy, everyone needs to act now, make your voice heard!
Full bill: https://the-eye.eu/S.4051_Lawful_Access_to_Encrypted_Data_Act.pdf
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