April 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Oceanix City: SeaSteading the Blue Frontiers
by grarpamp 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

https://www.wired.com/story/sea-levels-are-rising-time-to-build-floating-ci… http://oceanix.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller_Island https://www.homedit.com/22-most-beautiful-houses-made-from-shipping-contain… https://offgridworld.com/10-prefab-shipping-container-homes-from-24k/ https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends.html https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lagos,+Nigeria/@6.4945876,3.3928009,470m On Wednesday, the United Nations convened its first ever round table on floating cities. WIRED was in attendance to hear about one specific proposal -- Oceanix City -- the creation of a co-founder of Blue Frontiers, the for-profit wing of the Thiel-backed Seasteading Institute. This project, he says, is less about libertarianism and more about survival. It sounds like paradise, but many technological, economic, and political hurdles will have to be overcome before it's a reality. "Oceanix City was designed by the renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, along with dozens of experts from institutions like the UN and MIT," Wired reports. "According to Ingels, who lives on a houseboat himself, residents of the floating city will use 100 percent renewable energy, eat only plant-based food, produce zero waste, and provide housing affordable to all, not just the rich." "At the core of Oceanix City is a 4.5-acre hexagonal floating platform that is meant to host up to 300 people," the report adds. "These platforms are modular, meaning they can be linked to form larger communities as they tessellate across the surface of the ocean. Each platform will be anchored to the ocean floor using biorock, a material that is harder than concrete and can be grown using minerals found in the ocean, which could make the anchor more secure over time. These anchors might also serve as the seeds of artificial reefs to rejuvenate aquatic ecosystems around the floating city." The community's needs and city's location will determine the design of each platform. For example, some could act as barriers to limit the impact of waves; while others could be dedicated to agriculture. Wired goes on to discuss the political and technological challenges associated with these floating cities. "The plan for the first Oceanix City is to moor it about a mile off the coast of a major city," reports Wired. "If one of these ocean-top communities were to get parked near New York City, for example, the floating community could be treated as a new borough, or a separate city under the jurisdiction of the state..."

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Facebook censorship
by jim bell 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Jim Bell's comment:If a well-functioning AP-type system were available, Zuckerberg wouldn't even dream of doing this. ------------ Mark Zuckerburg wants censorship to protect his business model: https://nypost.com/2019/04/05/mark-zuckerburg-wants-censorship-to-protect-h…

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Project Everest: EverCrypt - Formally Verified Crypto Toolset
by grarpamp 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-evercrypt-library-creates-hacker-pro… https://www.reddit.com/r/tezos/comments/8hrsz2/tezos_switches_cryptographic… https://github.com/project-everest/hacl-star/blob/fstar-master/README.EverC… https://project-everest.github.io/

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Censorship: Australia Law Passes Over Free Speech As Abhorrent
by grarpamp 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/apr/04/australia-passes-social-media… https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/s1201_first… https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/04/04/0419203/australia-passes-law-to-pun… Australia passed sweeping legislation Thursday that threatens huge fines for social media companies and jail for their executives if they fail to rapidly remove "abhorrent violent material" from their platforms. The law puts Australia at the forefront of a global movement. It comes less than a month after a gunman, believed to be an Australian white nationalist, distributed a hate-filled manifesto online before using Facebook to live-stream the massacre of 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Written quickly and without much input, the measure goes as far as any other democracy's attempt to punish multinational tech platforms for the behavior of their users. "The legislation criminalizes 'abhorrent violent material,' which it defines as videos that show terrorist attacks, murders, rape or kidnapping. Social media companies that fail to remove such content 'expeditiously' could face fines of up to 10 percent of their annual profit, and employees could be sentenced to up to three years in prison," the report adds. "Companies must also inform the police when illegal material is found." "This law, which was conceived and passed in five days without any meaningful consultation, does nothing to address hate speech, which was the fundamental motivation for the tragic Christchurch terrorist attacks," said Sunita Bose, the managing director of the Digital Industry Group. "With the vast volumes of content uploaded to the internet every second, this is a highly complex problem that requires discussion with the technology industry, legal experts, the media and civil society to get the solution right -- that didn't happen this week." One cannot stop what cannot be seen. Stop the censors you can see.

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China Social Score Implements Slave Labor
by grarpamp 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/people-changing-jobs-too-often-coul… Lots of things can hurt your social credit in China. One province now wants to add another "discredited behavior" that seems much more harmless: Switching jobs too often. Zhejiang is pushing to build a local social credit system that will, among other things, deem residents a "discredited" person if they move from job to job too frequently. "If someone keeps quitting and landing new jobs, his social credit will definitely be a problem," Zhejiang official Ge Pingan said at a local forum, addressing a complaint from one company's human resources department about being unable to do anything when employees want to leave.

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UK Laws Make Free Speech "Abhorrent", Set Up "Duty of Care" Nanny State
by grarpamp 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/04/social-media-bosses-coul… The United Kingdom is working on legislation that would hold social media executives liable for harmful content distributed on their platforms. The leaked white paper comes less than 24 hours after Australia passed sweeping legislation that threatens huge fines for social media companies and jail for their executives if they fail to rapidly remove "abhorrent violent material" from their platforms. From the report: Under plans expected to be published on Monday, the government will legislate for a new statutory duty of care, to be policed by an independent regulator and likely to be funded through a levy on media companies. The regulator -- likely initially to be Ofcom, but in the longer term a new body -- will have the power to impose substantial fines against companies that breach their duty of care and to hold individual executives personally liable. The scope of the recommendations is broad. As well as social media platforms such as Facebook and search engines such as Google they take in online messaging services and file hosting sites. Other proposals in the online harm white paper include: - Government powers to direct the regulator on specific issues such as terrorist activity or child sexual exploitation. - Annual "transparency reports" from social media companies, disclosing the prevalence of harmful content on their platforms and what they are doing to combat it. - Co-operation with police and other enforcement agencies on illegal harms, such as incitement of violence and the sale of illegal weapons. "Companies will be asked to comply with a code of practice, setting out what steps they are taking to ensure that they meet the duty of care -- including by designing products and platforms to make them safer, and pointing users who have suffered harm towards support," the report says. "The code of practice is also likely to include the steps companies will be expected to take to combat disinformation, including by using fact-checking services, particularly during election periods, and improving the transparency of political advertising. Regulated firms will be expected to comply with the code of practice -- or explain what other steps they are taking to meet the duty of care. However, many questions are left to the regulator to determine."

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Censorship: Facebook, Google, Twitter - Both Accused By and Conspire with Congress,
by grarpamp 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-google-and-twitter-to-face-us-lawmakers-… Facebook, Google and Twitter are headed back to Washington next week to testify at a congressional hearing about censorship. Companies have faced accusations that they're censoring [conservative] speech on their platforms. The companies have denied the allegations in the past. The hearing before the Senate Judiciary's subcommittee on the Constitution is scheduled for April 10 and is titled "Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse." Company officials are expected to appear before the House Judiciary Committee on April 9 to answer the spread of white nationalism on their platforms.

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Censorship: Max Igan Banned From Youtube For Exposing Christchurch Massacre
by grarpamp 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Max Igan Banned From Youtube For Exposing Christchurch Massacre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov6ZqMeT-MM The Christchurch Massacre - An Independent Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyEPejcVPEA http://thecrowhouse.com/ https://steemit.com/@maxigan https://www.bitchute.com/channel/TheCrowhouse/ Sibel Edmonds on Tarrant Coincidnce https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBmW8GP4SOU Regardless of content... the fact that censorship bans jailings and theft are happening, and the scope and speed of its increase over the last few years, for nothing more than speaking... that's quite alarming. You're next. Wake up.

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Tommy Robinson Banned Off YouTube and SnapChat
by grarpamp 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

http://www.freedomfortommy.com/ https://steemit.com/@tommyrobinson https://www.tr.news/ https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews There is no "You" in Youtube. No "Face" to Facebook. Only them vs you. Fuck em.

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Julian Assange LiveStream, INAPapers Leak
by grarpamp 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

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