Elias @eliasr@librem.one

Article about Mastodon in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/01/mastodon-twitter-elon-musk-takeover

Oh and one more thing: the "Liberal" party is part of the new government, so the "Liberal" party is now advancing Sweden's new authoritarian agenda, reducing civil liberties as desired by nationalists.

What does "liberal" even mean then, going forward? Words are losing their meaning.

#svpol

Sadly, the new direction away from civil liberties and towards authoritarianism was not in focus in election debates; big parties were again assuming that people in Sweden generally no longer care much about human rights.

So, Swedish politics is a complete shitshow.

There used to be near consensus in Sweden that freedom and human rights should be protected. No longer so.

Gah. If you can think of anything to make us feel better about any of this, please let me know.

8/8

Failure to understand or care about concepts of freedom and civil libirties

The organization Civil Rights Defenders has stated the obvious fact that the new government's plans are not in line with civil libirties, human rights and so on.

Hardly surprising given that the new government is leaning on the Sweden Democrats, a nationalist party with nazi roots, pretty clear that they want an authoritarian society.

7/?

Still, the obviously stupid idea of giving money to those who use most energy was supported by both sides in the debate before the election. Nobody even tried to argue what should have been obvious.

6/?

Stupidity, continued

Think about the signal this sends to those who were responsible and strived to reduce their energy usage, invested in more efficient heating systems and similar. They are punished, money is given to the most irresponsible people. People will conclude that there is no point in acting responsibly, just keep using electricity and the government will reward you.

5/?

Stupidity

Stupidity: it has been decided that people who have large electricity bills will get money from the government. The more electricity you consume, the more money you get from the government.

Anyone who thinks about this for a minute will realize that it is a fundamentally stupid idea, giving incentives to use more electricity instead of less, at a time when we need to reduce consumption .

4/?

Judging by the political debate leading up to the election, there is pretty much consensus about this. The larger parties on both sides assume that selfishness is was voters want.

3/?

Selfishness

Selfishness: this point is perhaps most obvious in the decision to abandon the rule of 1% of Swedish GDP going to foreign aid. We had that rule for many years, but the new government is now going to abandon that.

Another example of Sweden's new selfishness is the treatment of refugees.

Overall, Sweden remains one of the richest countries on earth but now we apparently started feeling so very sorry four ourselves.

2/?

In Sweden we had an election a few weeks ago, and now there is a new government with an authoritarian agenda.

Swedish politics now seems to rest on the following three pillars:

- Selfishness

- Stupidity

- Failure to understand or care about concepts of freedom and civil liberties

I think those three are strongly related, in that the first two kind of lead to the third. Anyway, the situation is really bad.

1/?

Today it has been 39 years since the start of the GNU project: https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/24/gnu-project-turning-39/

The requirement for computers is funny: "The machine had
better be able to operate in a residential area [...]" 🙂

#gnu

Three months growth of an #avocado plant. #gardening #shotonlibrem5

Today is election day here in Sweden. For those who can, don't forget to vote!

Voting places should stay open until 20:00 tonight.

#democracy #shotonlibrem5

Välkomna på digitalt möte om DFRI-projektet för fri och öppen e-legitimation, ikväll klockan 20.

Läs mer här:
https://mailman.dfri.se/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/eleg-projekt@lists.dfri.se/thread/FHGS6A4ZS3MXYNHA7CMXDJUSNOFYRHK3/

Alla är välkomna, både ni som var med för et år sedan och alla nya som vill vara med och diskutera det här. Missa inte chansen!

#DFRI #FOSS #eID #EIDAS #mydata #eleg #elegitimation

@dfri

"Sverige kan bättre än BankID - öppen samverkan för fri e-legitimation"

Detta event var igår, här finns inspelningen:

https://play.mittdata.se/w/1xM3TT482yHRsX5qt7QiM7

#digitalisering #eleg #elegitimation #eID #svpol #eidas #digitalrights #freesoftware #privacy #foss #floss

#avocado #gardening #shotonlibrem5

Meeting invitation: "Sweden can do better than BankID – open collaboration for free e-identification", June 20, 2022 at 16:00 Swedish time:

https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/meeting-invitation-sweden-can-do-better-than-bankid-open-collaboration-for-free-e-identification/

The meeting will be in Stockholm. Hopefully we will also get a live stream via #PeerTube working for this.

See also: https://www.dfri.se/projekt/e-legitimation/project-introduction-in-english/

@dfri

#eID #elegitimation #eleg #eidas #digitalrights #freesoftware #privacy #foss #floss