So many people just have this “oh it was written on the internet, it can’t be illegal”. Mate when you are calling for people to set fire to hotels to burn migrants for their skin colour it’s fucking illegal.

Iran is a completely different beast to Iraq.

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I think they prefer stroopwaffels

Ah yes. That obviously dangerous, terrorist rocket launcher disguised as a… checks notes… Bridge

Do we know why? And is it a represented trend in the fediverse or are we overall maintaining health?

I’ve been playing around with matrix, seems pretty good tbh. Matrix.org for the info, and then joinmatrix.org is a good resource for finding other public instances (homeservers).

I think eventually me and some friends may selfhost

I agree to be honest. And it would be interesting to see what an appeal would drum up. I disagree with the “de facto tour leader” concept, but I think in any mountaineering situation everyone has a responsibility to everyone else in their party. And having experience as a mountaineer is enough to make him liable for his negligent decision making. (Tbh, him not having experience would probably make him more liable…)

I think it is important to set a precedent, and I think it is a reasonable sentence.

I think that the media attention is far more severe than what this climber deserves. However, I think that they also deserve some form of probationary period w.r.t. this type of activity. (Although I recognise that’s almost impossible in a legal framework).

How many of those fords have been sold in only the past 2-3 years?

Hell, a lot of the “latest” models of ford (in terms of appearance) are as old as Tesla sales

Uh oh, Suzerain coming to reality

Rare malazan reference in the wild

There is a very big difference between having restrictive laws which enable society to operate more freely, laws which have significant protections in place to prevent misuse, and laws which impede freedoms.

As well as the implementation of said laws by governments.

It’s certainly not a new thing, but the status quo has shifted drastically in the past 5 years especially.

For example, the laws which are being used to quell protest have been around for 20 years and longer, it’s just that last year was the first time they have been abused in that way. (As critics of, for example the terror act, suggested it would be)

My point isn’t that it’s the first time the UK has seen authoritarian skews in government. Churchill set the troops on the miners, Thatcher used secret police against the unions. The point is that the paradigm is shifting back to that, and eroding what has been slowly and painfully won.

I’m quite curious on this as well. Lived in Bloem from 2011-2013, everyone loves going on about how bad ZA is (“white genocide”…). Would love to hear from real folk there if it’s all hogwash or if there is some grain of truth

Unfortunately we are living in times where even the most sane countries are getting to the point where completely reasonable things may be seen as illegal, or used against you, in the future.

It’s not unreasonable to imagine that insurance companies/banks may soon (if not already) buy your internet traffic to get a profile of you. If that profile matches some risk factors, higher interest rates or premiums could be a thing.

Even the UK has started flexing authoritarian lately with the Palestine action proscription and suppression of protest. There is certainly a trend in modern politics to try to track people online, and they are starting with pornography to normalise it, using CSAM as an excuse to enact more extreme legislation.

Immigration and border authorities are also beginning to expand digital backgrounds for travellers or immigrants.

It’s not necessarily about what is illegal today, in your current location, but it’s about what might be considered illegal or “bad” in the future and weaponised against you.

Don’t assume that your current situation will always be the case. The right to privacy is not for people to do illegal things, the right to privacy is to protect you against authoritarian governments if/when they may intersect with your life.

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