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hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.

Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-…

TL;dr Google/Apple increasingly wield their world-wide #appcontrol in the political interests of various governments, and not in the interest of user security or privacy. The article lays out three areas of fighting back ...

last paragraph of https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly How we can push back In an increasingly centralized world, it will take very little for an abusive government to cause an effective organizing tool to disappear, to block an app that belongs to a critical dissenting media outlet, or to force invasive malware into a software update used by everyone. We need a shared infrastructure that doesn’t permit this kind of centralized control. We can disrupt oligopolistic control over software through user choice (e.g., preferring and installing free software), building good protocol frameworks (e.g., demanding tools that use open standards for interoperability), and through regulatory intervention (e.g., breaking up monopolistic actors, or mandating that an OS must allow sideloading, as the EU did with the DMA). The device you carry with you that is privy to much of your life should be under your control, not under the control of an abusive government or corporations that do its bidding.

Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship

Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Daniel Kahn Gillmor (American Civil Liberties Union)
#github #cloudflare #appcontrol

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I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that folk who embrace technology like Delta Chat, Mastodon, Linux, De-Googled phones, FOSS, etc. will only ever provide a back-up service to mainstream society when the 'stuff hits the fan', so to speak.

The contemporary version of the Amateur Radio operators who traditionally provide the backbone of reliable communications in times of disaster, if you will.

I'm not sure decentralisation will ever reach a 'critical mass' in my lifetime.

Never have I hoped to be more wrong though.

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slackline :emacs: :orgmode:

Google/Android are starting to retreat on the developer verification, see details under "Empowering advanced users" at link below (still remains to be seen what it will actually look like)

android-developers.googleblog.…


Android developer verification: Early access starts now as we continue to build with your feedback

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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