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Do we have a chance? (szmer.info)

submitted 1 week ago by cottonbk@szmer.info to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Negative thoughts flooded my mind. The EU is constantly trying to push Chat Control. They're blocking bootloaders on phones, introducing ID and face scanning everywhere, in the US they're trying to push system-level verification, corporations are spitting in our faces and don't even hide it. I know we have to fight. My personal rebellion was joining Fediverse and Lemmy and quitting Reddit. But seriously, boss—I'm tired. Are our attempts to preserve internet freedom futile? Can we win against corporations and politicians who we pay but don't listen to us?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just do your part and don't get discouraged. You don't have to do everything. Walk the walk, talk the talk. If things don't work out, at least you tried; that's more than the majority did.

Do what you do no because of some expected local or global outcome, but because it's right.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i wish i had spent more time on the "pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will" part before i started to learn about leftism; i'm in a funk rn because there's a seemingly impenetrable gulf between where we are as a society and where we think we are and it's making me want to give up.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do you believe "left-wing" ideologies are more negative?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

it's that society tolerates casual brutalities that are innate to right-wing ideologies that is negative to me.