Re: minimizing "comms platform change" friction - "world’s most bloodthirsty killer award" - modern Western warfare

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Fri Nov 25 17:45:22 PST 2016



On November 25, 2016 8:19:04 PM EST, Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

>Let's get tools in the hands of Team Trump, Milo Yianoppoulos,
>Breitbart, and every other so-called "alternative" media source, left


Damn straight - can never get enough Milo  Yianoppoulos!  

Heil Milo and death to the luginpresse!


>or
>right, "extreme" left or right or otherwise, which tools reduce
>platform
>change friction to as close to zero as possible.
>
>
>*
>The foundation of such tech is stable public identification.
>
>An "identification regime" that folks are already familiar with is
>probably the best start, backed by funky fully decentralised DHT type
>tech. For on purely random e.g. (never used Twitter sorry, so this is
>not in any way technically accurate!):
> - start with say Twitter handle syntax, [.]@...
> - add something small to this regime, say [.]@@... or [.]@UID...
> - back this with gnunet or something similar
> - build tools / GUIs to seamlessly transition folks from Twitter,
>   Facebook etc
>
>Imagine this:
> - "your account got banned? Just use Gwitter!"
> - "your tweets aren't getting out? Just add a second '@' symbol!"
> - "you're not seeing Milo's tweets? Just use Gwitter!"
>
>We can imagine gateways between say Gwitter and Twitter, where every
>individual who uses Gwitter and Twitter, becomes a gateway (if they so
>choose), and a war where Twitter Inc shuts down more and more gateway
>accounts, which would only highlight (to normies/ regular folk) the
>foundational problem of the centralization and censorship inherent in
>corporate fascist centralised "platforms" - this highlighting and
>raising of awareness can only be a great thing!
>
>
>*
>Additional things like privacy, anonymity, secrecy etc, are not even on
>the scale at the moment - the foundations must be handled first.
>
>Can we solve "freedom of speech, as in I'm free to communicate with
>whom
>I choose to communicate with, which may involve nothing more than
>listening to those I wish to listen to"?
>
>
>*
>And here's just another example that triggered my snowlflakey self into
>launching this tirade about why we need to get this done :)
>
>Syria: Theater of the Absurd Gets Crazier
>http://journal-neo.org/2016/11/25/theater-of-the-absurd-gets-crazier/
>
>
>
>
>
>$ akw gnunet
>Package: gnunet
>Description-en: secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework (meta)
>GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework which focuses on providing security.
> All link-to-link messages in the network are confidential and
>authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and
>can currently encapsulate the peer-to-peer traffic in UDP, TCP, or SMTP
> messages.

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