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.

  • Lunatique @lemmy.mlOP
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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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                9 hours ago

                I know one thing. If I had a platform I wouldn’t be responsible for my users post. All these other CEOs have liability protection. It’s a double standard

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          11 hours ago

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