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.
I'll see you niggers on IRC.
I'll need to find another user name that doesn't get autobanned. As they probably have made new autoban regexs since I last logged in 8 years ago.
Also, probably still makes me wait a day between tries.
(For those out of the loop, a lot of the big IRC networks would ban your IP for a day if you picked a username their spam filters didn't like. It wasn't banning curse words or anything, just things they thought made you more likely to be a spammer, but decades of filters upon filters left it with nonsense cruft from long dead botnets)
My username here is based on my IRC handle. After trying several that were banned in seconds before posting a message, I wiggled my fingers on the keyboard in frustration. That somehow made it past the autobanners. So that is why my username is tralbolh.
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