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nate@social.trom.tf ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

@mbirth This has got to be the most milk toast take ever. The government says they have concrete justification to interfere with a political party in a democracy by performing aggressive surveillance on them, but says their justification is a secret. Then somebody comes along and says "Huh, I don't blindly trust the government so I'm not going to support this decision unless I'm told why and can judge it for myself." In fact, if in a democracy a party tries to attack another party through non-electoral means without saying why, there are only two reasonable responses:

I've long been critical of this really aggressive defederation, it breaks the network and I believe is the capstone in the list of reasons why the fediverse sputtered out and lost a supermajority of it's users. I think it's still got a chance as the big three protocols grow more interconnected and as big platforms have started adopting said protocols, but if it's got a chance to do so I believe the community needs to get this sort of stuff sorted out beforehand.

/end rant

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