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Concerned message from CEO of Telegram about privacy and censorship (lemmy.ml)

submitted 21 hours ago by lunatique@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] unexpected@forum.guncadindex.com 1 points 12 hours ago

It is and isn't.

I'd compare the people who use technologies like this to the internet users of the 90's and those who use facebag, tweeker and insta to the AOL users back then.

Yes, we're the minority, but that is how people have always been. Most people don't want freedom. But those that do still have plenty of options. Don't forget that "they" didn't originally plan on us plebes having true encryption tech and privacy cryptos. It is possible that we are doing better than it looks.

But yea.. his comment sounds more like something we would have said 20 years ago, rather than the present. I agree with your point.