@aral I agree with their point about demonizing Russia, and all the Russia paranoia within the last year has been irritating. It's like Red Scare 3.0, but without the reds. imho statements from Zuckerberg and some very sketchy agencies doesn't amount to any kind of proof of electoral interference.
@aral If they have hired developers and they expect to free the software later then it would be better to make that clear at the start, because otherwise developers will hold joint copyright and there could be disputes.
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Another indicator that maybe things might be changing in a more federated direction, although I don't have much confidence in the institutions of the EU to manage or achieve anything.
Some of the ideas also sound similar to things which @aral has talked about.
@antanicus I don't think food poverty in the UK is related to brexit, and it began before the referendum. It's really a story about the demise of the welfare state, beginning in the 1980s.
Particular decisions which led to what we have now are the "carrot and stick" welfare policy of Tony Blair which saw the first introduction of benefit sanctions and punitive conditionality. Then after 2010 benefit sanctions were expanded and turned into quotas under the particularly odious Ian Duncan Smith. Compounding that is the non-recovery after the 2008 crash. The few new jobs which were created have been precarious gig economy type work or zero hours contracts. People trying, and mostly failing, to live on Paterons, food banks and very uncertain working hours, etc.
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 07:42:41 EST
Bob MottramI don't think it was a terrible year for internet freedom. I'm seeing more people getting interested in running their own stuff. More criticism of freedom-hating Silicon Valley BS and bigoted idiocy. More encryption successes, although there's still a long way to go. More powerful hardware for making home servers. Better systems for realtime collaboration. The probable defeat of Intel ME getting closer. And more Free Software mobile apps.