Among many other domestic terror groups who should be scaring the shit out of us as a nation.

I think you’ve hit it on the head, in that it will be a question of how openly the next administration enables the horrors perpetuated by the Israeli government. What a time to be alive!

I suspect that post election we’ll see a renewed push into Gaza and the West Bank. This feels a lot like Reagan and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

I’d bet money I don’t have that “halted” means “delayed until after the US election”. But that’s the cynic in me . . .

He’s already invaded Lebanon. I suspect Rafah’s only been spared so they can focus on that.

I get what you’re saying but I’ll point out he has our near-unquestioning support now.

Be a little careful with this one: as far as I know it’s all based on one internal FEMA email. While the email itself is confirmed, the content hasn’t been.

Wow. Thank you.

Thanks for letting me know.

I may have missed something: what’s the issue with Blue Sky?

I have an upcoming article about this but: I just slapped together a older desktop machine with a large HDD and made it network accessible via my local network. Add Kiwix and a few other things and you’re most of the way there. The difficulty is getting people to use it.

Yes it is and it does my heart good to find it. Thank you all so very much.

Facebook came along at the right time in Internet history to grab all the Boomer crackpots and monied groups.

Facebook has always been first and foremost an advertising platform, and they went where the money is. Some of that’s the automated algorithms, some of that is deliberate corporate informationeering.

I offer some thoughts on the decline and fall of the internet here, and I think it’s germane to this discussion: https://michaelhjenkins.substack.com/p/visions-of-a-post-apocalyptic-internet?r=26iex9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Oh wow, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’m really glad to know folks are working in this direction!

I’d love to tell you that it was an attempt at visual irony, but the reality is I originally posted this in another corner of the Fediverse and was too lazy to remove the #hashtags. The good/bad news is that I have nothing to sell you.

That one’s gonna haunt us for a very long time, even though it really just made official what had been happening routinely.

I honestly think that’s what we can do: start to build free, parallel structures and attract folks to join us. We can’t outspend Google but we can opt out of their ecosystem to some degree or another both collectively and individually.

And thank you for bringing that up as it helps me illustrate my central point: the importance of a free internet isn’t online life in and of itself, but rather what the open flow of information and communication enable us to do in order to make the world a better place. Thanks for allowing me to clarify.

It’s a real challenge in large portions of the world. So many national governments are perfectly happy with a corporatized, compartmentalized internet–and willing to pass legislation to keep it that way.