Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 67

@LibertyPaulM
> govts won’t just crack down on the speech people want them to crack down on, they always crack down on all speech

Social media companies are also governments. Many of the larger ones govern more people than the government of New Zealand. Do we support the free speech and freedom to organize of people who are campaigning against free speech and freedom to organize. Yes, we must, or we are hypocrites. It' a classic example of what people call the "paradox of tolerance".

@stevenroose this is a project a lot of people in the #OpenAppEcosystem group would support, and are to some degree already working on:
https://www.loomio.org/g/exAKrBUp/open-app-ecosystem

@Wolf480pl that's true, and I did focus on the climate strike for the first couple of days. But the more I read about the incident, the more questions I have about the way the whole incident was handled by the Police and law enforcement in general. We need to understand how it happened, and make sure it doesn't get used to justify policies that could make the problem worse (eg increased mass surveillance or internet censorship). That, I think is deserving of some publicity.

Those who think the solution to white supremacist violence is to have governments crack down on white nationalist speech or political organizing, or militants beat them up in the street, need to be reminded of the words of John F. Kennedy:
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"White supremacist violence has surged in recent years in the United States. During the past decade, attackers motivated by right-wing political ideology are responsible for more acts of violence than any other category of domestic extremist, according to a 2018 Washington Post analysis of data on global terrorism."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/new-zealand-suspect-inspired-by-far-right-french-intellectual-who-feared-nonwhite-immigration/2019/03/15/8c39fba4-6201-4a8d-99c6-aa42db53d6d3_story.html

At best, the #NZ law enforcement establishment are revealed as having a massive institutional bias against lefties (David Small), Muslims (Ahmed Zaoui) greenies and Māori (Operation 8), and dangerous blind spots when it comes to anti-unionists (bombed Trades Hall in 1984), French spies (bombed the Rainbow Warrior in 1985), letterbox bombers (against conservationists in Westport in 2006), and white nationalists.

@rigelk that's great news! I look forward to seeing more people with web video channels on YT and other video #DataFarms setting up a backup on a PT instance that supports imports (ideally their own), or even leaving the video datafarms entirely.
@switchingsocial

"Democracy is messy, and it's kind of a pain in the ass, and the alternative is fascism."
- #HenryGiroux
https://www.russellbrand.com/podcast/069-finding-joy-amidst-fascism-violence-with-brad-evans-henry-giroux/

I've reported #Wire's lack of server>server federation as an issue, and explained how it could benefit them as a company. I mentioned that there might be hackers out there willing to help them make it happen. Let's see what they say:
https://github.com/wireapp/wire/issues/266

Finally, I've been part of groups organizing non-violent direct actions that we tried to keep secret until they happened. We later found out the cops had an informer in our ranks, and knew about everything we were doing before it happened:
http://www.nickyhager.info/crossing-the-line-the-activist-who-turned-police-informer/

So given that the shooter who attacked the mosques in Christchurch was part of a rifle club that had been reported to the Police by worried gun owners, how the hell did they not know what he was planning and stop him before he did it?

Congratulations @dansup , that's a really important feature for increasing #fediverse adoption. I wonder if #PeerTube has a feature for importing YT channels to PT servers? I'm certainly not aware of a Mastodon feature for importing from the birdsite (yet). #GDPR obliges the #DataFarms to make user data portable. I'd love to see every fediverse app working on a #FyreExyt for every user of datafarms with similar services.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-20-gdpr/
@switchingsocial

I have personally encountered Christchurch Police officers who were shitted out of the decomposing anus of #apartheid South Africa. Could it be that "some of those who work forces, are the same that burn crosses"?
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ

The two mosques that were attacked are on either side of central Christchurch. To get between them quickly, the shooter had to drive down one of only 3 roads that go through or around Hagley Park, and then through downtown, practically right past the central Police Station.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/17FE1/production/_106037289_christchurch_mosque_attacks_map04_976-nc.png

How the hell did the shooter have enough time leave the first mosque, let alone get to the second one, before Police stopped him? (2/2)

> [Khaled Al-Nobani] claimed police took 20 minutes to arrive. “We are in the middle of the city. The middle of Christchurch. There was no traffic about. You need two-minute [maximum] response.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/christchurch-shooting-new-zealand-suspect-white-supremacist-symbols-weapons

This is a very good question, and only one of a number of troubling and unanswered questions about Friday. (1/2)

@wire
> OWS even forced them to publish it under GPL license even though they wanted to publish it under permissive license.

Citation please? Given how much pressure had to be put on Signal to release their own source, and the discussions I've had about licensing with folks from Wire on GH issues, I'm sceptical.
@alexl

Asked #Reddit: If you could design any website, app, or any other digital tech, and have a team build it, what would it do and how would it work?
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/azvclg/if_you_could_design_any_website_app_or_any_other/

Would be great to have some more answers here. I'm trying to get across the idea that users don't have to be passive consumers of digital tech, but can play an active role in envisioning its development.

But if prominent environmentalists went about making dehumanizing comments about folks who work in tech or fossil fuel industries, that would certainly help create a climate of justification for violence against them. So there are more than a few public intellectuals who need to have a serious think about their habit of making lazy generalizations about Muslims as a type of person, instead of carefully criticizing #Islamism as a *political* philosophy not shared by most Muslims. (2/2)

But if prominent environmentalists went about making dehumanizing comments about folks who work in tech or fossil fuel industries, that would certainly help create a climate of justification for violence against them. So there are more than a few public intellectuals who need to have a serious think about their habit of making lazy generalizations about Muslims as a type of person, instead of carefully criticizing #Islamism as a *political* philosophy not shared by most Muslims.