I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.

What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.

Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of private messages (EU).

Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.

A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast - while we’re asleep. Our generation risks going down in history as the last one that had freedoms -and allowed them to be taken away.

We’ve been fed a lie.

We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we’ve set ourselves on a path toward self-destruction - moral, intellectual, economic, and ultimately biological.

So no, I’m not going to celebrate today. I’m running out of time. We are running out of time.

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    13 hours ago

    this was the dude arrested because he let drug trafficking and csam go unchecked on telegram… so naturally it makes sense that he’ll lurch rightward.

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      13 hours ago

      He is not responsible for the user uploads. Telegram deletes illegal activity. If it’s a private group they don’t know what’s happening. CSAM has been on YouTube and they do little about it. But your masters didn’t tell you to hate Google yet.

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        11 hours ago

        I call bullshit show me the story where CSAM has been on YouTube.

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        12 hours ago

        If it’s a private group they don’t know what’s happening

        This is not true, group chats with more than two members on Telegram are NEVER encrypted. Telegram admins have full access to see the contents of these private chats, and have the ability to respond to court orders, but they were ignoring those requests. This is why he was arrested. Google/YouTube respond to court orders and do take stuff down, and actual encrypted messengers like Signal have no way to see the contents of the messages, which is why the owners and operators of these services have never been arrested.

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          11 hours ago

          They aren’t encrypted, hence why I never said they were. This is something your cooked mind imagined so you can argue with yourself.

          Private Groups: Only members can see messages. Admins cannot view messages unless they are part of the conversation.

          This means if “Crimegroup” has shady stuff in the group if no member snitched it wouldn’t be known for them to even delete it. While telegram (the company or workers) could look right in they would need to know it’s an illegal group first because luckily they aren’t spying on everyone by default

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            11 hours ago

            If messages aren’t end to end encrypted, then their contents of the messages can be intercepted by Telegram or any adversary who has access to Telegram’s systems. This is what the US Government was doing with Prism to suck in unencrypted data from ISPs without their knowledge. By not having end to end encryption, you have to trust that Telegram administrators are being truthful when they say they’re not looking at your messages, and that their systems are never compromised by crimegroups or nation states without Telegram’s knowledge.

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              10 hours ago

              True. It is a trust thing. Thats why I don’t trust telegram for privacy. But I use it to follow groups

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        12 hours ago

        it’s his service; he’s absolutely responsible or it. he was arrested because he DIDN’T do anything about it.

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          12 hours ago

          He was arrested because he didn’t stop people from having freedom of speech. He wasn’t and hasn’t been found guilty of anything.

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            12 hours ago

            posessing csam is not “freedom of speech”.

            nevermind the fact that telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection against csam groups to address the problem of csam on their service.

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              11 hours ago

              Are you stupid on purpose? I’m saying thats the real reason they arrested him. They wanted to censor freedom of speech. Not scam

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                  10 hours ago

                  It’s the people who posted it fault. You think that one human can read everyone’s messages lol? They would need to spy on everyone and have millions of employees specifically looking for illegal activity.

                  People are so righteous but have done nothing to ensure that the Epstein files were revealed.

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                    9 hours ago

                    and the people who posted it were given the platform by telegram and their ceo who did nothing to help fight csam and child exploitation.

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                11 hours ago

                Oh yes it had nothing with him not doing anything about child porn nothing at all.