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This awesome and revolutionary tool which goes by the Internet is so powerful that in certain ways it is becoming a threat to the freedom of its users, who, in exchange for services, indifferently hand over their data, therefore giving up personal independence and liberty.
Essentially, I interpret internet freedom as the joint concern for two overlapping macro-themes:
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I wish I had both the time and the knowledge to write some in-depth articles about the topics mentioned above, but I am still studying and trying to better tackle the problems of the internet and their roots, in order to form a well-grounded opinion. For this reason, content of this page is pretty random and schematic.
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They [proletarians] direct their attacks not against the bourgeois conditions of production, but agains the instruments of production themselves
<p class='cite'>Marx, <cite>Communist Manifesto</cite></p>
Avoid Neo-Luddism: the problem is not technology itself, nor any digital device. Rather, it is a matter of how such devices are produced and how they work.
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Digital awareness is time consuming.
The only excuse I accept from people refusing to inform themselves about how we are being sucked into a worryingly inescapable and uncontrollable ecosystem is that they don’t have time.
I get it. I “wasted” hours, days, reading articles and watching videos concerning the internet, its functioning and its governance. I wish this matter could be simpler and more clear, but understanding internet monopoly both requires a fair amount of technical knowledge and it is a subtle matter.
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Just complaining, waiting for things to get better, believing that a conscious use is enough to keep clear from big tech negative impact is simply bullshit.
To change something and to make things better we need to [[Quit and switch|switch]] to healthier, more ethical, often even cooler alternatives.
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Random links about privacy online
The Hitchhiker’s guide to Internet Anonymity
Privacy is power, a conversation with Clarissa VĂ©liz
Free Software, Richard Stallman
Why Privacy Matters - TED Talk
Andy Yen (ProtonMail CEO) TED Talk
Blog article: how to live without tech giants
https://www.designkit.org/resources
Presa Diretta "riprendiamoci i nostri dati"
internet independence playlist
Restore privacy - Google Alternatives
Facebook Doesn’t tell users everything it really knows about them
The Social Dilemma creators interview
WhatsApp vs Telegram vs Signal