This is a tone-deaf comment. All of us who otherwise agree with your position and support it: you are alienating us.
I have friends and acquaintances who fled, or stayed and had their eardrums blown out by flash-bangs at protests.
My friends' student was raped in prison for attempting to "take control against her own corrupt and bloodthirsty government", as you put it.
Where were you in 2020? What domains did Namecheap drop then at a week's notice?
Now you are preaching to the choir (i.e. the very "IT-shniki" whose support for your position was never even in doubt), and calling them too apathetic or too meek or too unworthy.
I get it: you see suffering, in your own ranks, you have power and you want to use that power to do good.
But please listen when we explain to you that you're revelling in scoring on your own net. This action hurts your own team and not the opposing one.
I FUCKING WANT TO SLOWMURDER YOU LYING COMMUNIST SCUM, DESTROYING INTERNET FREEDOM AND SILENCING ALL DISSENT! IF YOU WANT GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED INTERNET, MOVE TO NORTH KOREA!!!
I get it, you're an unprincipled hack that cannot stand not hearing your favorite things to hear. You really should try to not be such a vile and horrible person. People around you suffer from what wretched of a person you are. Stop harming people and stop abusing the power you cannot constrain yourself from abusing. You are literally committing human rights abuses by suppressing free speech.
Did you ever think you would achieve that goal of yours, becoming a member of the list of human rights violators?
Relocating your family to an alternate tax farm wouldn't accomplish much. The social contract has been severed.
In the USCIA, it's no longer possible to engage with your local community without being cognizant of government spies. After all that happened with the Occupy movement, if the criminals who oversaw these sadistic acts of torture aren't brought to justice, and it instead comes down to grassroots activism, I for one wouldn't count on justice.
And here's to hoping that I can at least continue to speak frankly on the internet. I certainly foresee my use of Tor creating problems for me down the road. It's why I'm such a big fan of Bitcoin, because that's the only viable way I'm aware of to defund these psychopaths.
There is no chance your individual actions will have any impact. Our only hope is drastic, large scale policy changes at the national and international level.
The speech in your post is oppressing me right now. Cease and desist your verbal oppression or else I will use state-sponsored violence to end your oppressively free speech.
It's disgraceful that you're trying to bully an organization based on the political opinions of one of their partners. You should be ashamed of yourself and of the damage you're doing to your country.
I may regret commenting in my real name, but I still have a vestige of belief in open opposition. For now, though, I cannot enter the US without giving my Facebook password. I have no doubts that as the new government settles in, it will up the ante on everything which could be construed as active opposition. This IS a fascist regime. It just hasn’t gotten hold of its true tools yet.
Keep telling yourself that while you destroy democracy, media, free speech while concentrating wealth and power in an unaccountable technocratic elite unparalleled in history. You all belong in prison from my perspective.
A transparent shakedown. I and those like me will continue to exercise our rights and pursue our own interests in spite of these threats of coordinated harassment.
By the way, your cries of being perpetually marginalized ring hollow, when in the very same sentence you boast of your ability to silence and damage those whom you hate.
You're really persisting in missing the point. I am no threat to Raytheon, or the class of people who work there, or the ruling elite of the country who think burning Yemeni children alive is a good idea as long as we teach women to participate in STEM careers.
If I were and could get my message out (people are trying on youtube; they're being censored), well, no doubt my life would be worth girl scout cookies. I'd be unpersonned at the very least.
FWIIW yes, I am being stopped from voting for politicians who would make this state of affairs end. Just as effectively as Chinese people are.
you are one of those very dangerous followers who touts the virtues of independence, and fighting against the system, pointing to something that seems new. Telling us it is better and different, and if we weren't such sheep we could be free, at least those of us brave enough to follow you.
I no longer believe in pretending in the good faith of posters here on HN. This kind of anti-social clap-trap is dangerous and stupid.
It's offensive on your part to call my reaction knee-jerk. It's not me who is holding a gun. It's not me who educates your children and gives out licenses for radio, TV, internet service providers and satellites.
Suppose we are in a developing nation (I'm from Russia, born in 1980-s, by the way). And you want government and I don't. I fully respect your choice, morals and ethics. I disagree with you, but I will never imagine to coerce you not to act on what you think is good. Will you give me the same respect? Will you allow me to withdraw my participation from government activity, not to pay my taxes, not to use the money you want when cooperating with other people? Or will you call the cops? If you will, would you hesitate to threaten me directly, or will you cowardly make a call and try to avoid knowing all the details of what cops do to people?
You’re not getting the point. Until you literally force all of its members into a gulag (good luck), the greater counterculture will continue to thrive.
You can continue flailing around trying to bully me into giving up my support, or you can accept that fact.
People like you always pretend like you are not voting for your government or you are not part of the society you live in. There is a problem with rampart criminal activity on the net and there is atm no solution to it. Pretending that the world doesn't change has never done any good or why you are not writing this on your C64...
I have friends and acquaintances who fled, or stayed and had their eardrums blown out by flash-bangs at protests.
My friends' student was raped in prison for attempting to "take control against her own corrupt and bloodthirsty government", as you put it.
Where were you in 2020? What domains did Namecheap drop then at a week's notice?
Now you are preaching to the choir (i.e. the very "IT-shniki" whose support for your position was never even in doubt), and calling them too apathetic or too meek or too unworthy.
I get it: you see suffering, in your own ranks, you have power and you want to use that power to do good.
But please listen when we explain to you that you're revelling in scoring on your own net. This action hurts your own team and not the opposing one.
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