As protests spread across France over the police killing of a 17-year-old, its government is seeking more control.
It’s unbelievable how quickly such a decision became accepted and justified, it opens the door to totalitarianism. People seem to care more about being tracked by corporations for advertising purposes rather than by governments for political reasons. In the wrong hands, this can lead to 1984-like dystopian scenarios.
Corrected headline:
French Government wants to promote rooted cell phones running anything other than android and VPNs.
This is why there is more imperative than ever to break away from corporate social media and start using decentralized methods that make it much harder for authoritarian governments to control. If all you use are Facebook, Twitter, Threads, and so on and so forth, it’s easy as stealing candy from a baby to demand that data and level of access. Corporations rarely if ever go to bat for their users, preferring instead to selling them out and giving up their users’ data. Imagine the impossibility of block hundreds and thousands of small, independent social media servers. This is why I want email to de-federate. I want people to stop using Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Outlook.com, et al. Corporations single-handedly broke the internet from what it was designed to be. The whole idea behind it is so that no one entity can exert such unchecked power over all of us.
The internet is getting exciting again and we are watching the power shift back into the hands of the person. This will work against the French Government’s wishes.
Could you point me in the direction on how to perhaps make my own email?
Buy your own domain and hosting (~$10 for a domain name and generally $20–60 a year for hosting depending on your needs), then just set up your own email server. Most hosting services should have a couple of email platforms available for you to choose from somewhere in the interface, but there are open-source ones too, like Postfix or Dovecot.
I’m honestly surprised how peaceful this evening/night has been in Lyon. I was fully expecting more protests this weekend after the news about that law broke out a few day ago.
