I love the idea!

I absolutely despise it when it is locked down from the user, owned by the corporation that produced it, and operating as an arm of the surveillance state.

Even discounting the need for safeguards, sanity-checks, and verifiability of information.

Those monstrosities are not allowed in my home until I can remove the spyware operating system.

Nice username. I remember when they got away with using that name (minus the numbers) for the handshake to WPA3, and were deeply suspicion-inducing about whether the mathematician who authored that was on the NSA payroll or not.

Valid and real. Good luck.

Is your country taking American Refugees yet?

But where is Palantir on this? Because they’re discernibly connected to several of these orgs, and that displays the character of what this is actually about.

Mullvad on desktop has QUIC protocol encapsulation so that wireguard just looks like normal https traffic.

There’s also shadowsocks protocol encapsulation to look like ssh traffic. And that’s even available on mobile too.

I’d love to see them audited.

Back when they were in the US, they closed shop and moved to Iceland to avoid turning over data for a subpoena.

That’s both admirable and an admission that they had longs to turn over.

But that they generate accounts on the fly like the best? Is promising in context.

You know how the US government has 3 branches that are supposed to check and balance each other? We should teach that Corporations, Government, and Individuals/Unions operate similarly.

Corporate terms of service check individuals against abusing others. So do government laws.

Government is supposed to check corporations from abusing their customers. And customer boycotts moderate corporate behavior.

And corporations… Apparently moderate the flow of information to individuals so the companies always manufacture consent. And lobby for their own advantage.

If nothing else, by describing how it is, we can have a real conversation about how fucked/okay all of this is, and examine what parts of this framework are actually functioning.

And in that, we can explore where Unions fit - as 3rd party bosses steeped in corruption, or as genuine representatives of their people. And explore how to rebound in just the one context, because we are good citizens. 😇😅😉