Elias @eliasr@librem.one

I want to show kids some good things about the internet. This is hard because there is so much bad, difficult and outright dangerous stuff out there. Looking for healthy things, the kind that do not involve any Big Tech company's sphere of influence.

So far I came up with these two things:

- Wikipedia
- OpenStreetMap

Are those good choices?

What else do you recommend?

#AskFedi

If you tell people to "just search for it" instead of giving them a link, you need to change that too: you are effectively giving google the power to decide what people will find.

Oh and one more thing: when you leave google, make sure to not end up in the claws of another of the giants that are no better, like Apple or Microsoft. They are equally bad.

Be free! Do not let google own you, and do not help google own others around you.

5/5

If you share links to youtube videos, stop doing that right now! There are alternatives, see #PeerTube

If you use gmail, switch to another service right now!

If you use an android phone, throw that away and help build #MobileLinux instead. As long as you are using android, you are helping google preserve its dangerous near-monopoly.

4/?

If you like democracy and human rights, then you must stay away from google because of the huge power that company has, power that is outside the reach of any democratic institution. Google's power is not used to benefit people, instead it is used to increase Google's profits and power even further.

Oh and if you are a google user, then don't blame anyone else -- you are the problem! You need to change.

3/?

If you lean left, then it should be obvious that you should not allow such a huge for-profit company to have power over you, and over society around you.

If you lean right, then htink about the size of the company and its monopoly situation. The company is so large that it has long ago passed the point where there was meaningful competition in a marketplace. A this point it just stays in power due to its monopoly.

2/?

This is for anyone using Google things, their search, their email, youtube, android, all that crap. Stop using that right now!

Google is a company so large that it's value is more than a trillion (1 000 000 000 000) USD. That should be enough information for you to understand that you should stay far away from their disgusting "products".

No matter where you stand politically, the conclusion is the same: stay away from google.

1/?

Read this: https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/

Quote:

"The Commission has been reluctant to detail the relationship between Thorn and Johansson’s cabinet under the EU’s freedom of information mechanism. [...] disclosure [...] would undermine the organisation’s commercial interest”."

So we cannot have democracy because that would hurt the "commercial interest" of those who want to sell their mass-surveillance technology to the EU.

#ChatControl #StopChatControl #StoppaChatControl #svpol #eupol #democracy

Photo of #GamlaStan taken from the #Skeppsholmsbron bridge this morning. Trying to compete with @stockholmpixels

#stockholm #stockholmbypixels #cityphotography #ShotOnLibrem5

I was just sitting there minding my own business, watching the kids football game IFK Bergshamra - IF Brommapojkarna 6 earlier today, when suddenly this little fellow being landed on my knee. #dragonfly #trollslända #ShotOnLibrem5

Isobel Hadley-Kamptz: "Chatcontrol är galenskap – att Sverige stöder massövervakningen är en skandal" -- ledartext i DN idag

https://www.dn.se/ledare/isobel-hadley-kamptz-chatcontrol-ar-galenskap-att-sverige-stoder-massovervakningen-ar-en-skandal/

In English: "Chatcontrol is madness – that Sweden supports the mass surveillance is a scandal"

#ChatControl #StoppaChatControl #svpol #eupol #democracy

I was at a ChopChop restaurant earlier this evening. One of their big screens that normally show order numbers and such things instead showed this, revealing that the restaurant uses Raspberry Pi 4 Model B for that.

For some reason seeing that made me happy, I got a feeling that there is hope, or something. 🙂

#ShotOnLibrem5

Just prepared this sign to bring to the demonstration against #ChatControl that starts at 18:00 tonight at Mynttorget in Stockholm.

I hope you are coming too!

https://konstellationen.org/2023/09/10/demo-chatcontrol-september/

https://chatcontrol.se/

#ChatControl #StoppaChatControl #svpol #eupol #democracy