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> Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.

Calling all engineers! We do have the power amongst ourselves to add technical impediments to surveillance to the services we're building, and to the internet as a whole.

The technology exists to prevent surveillance, we just need to care, and to use it. Also keep in mind that net neutrality would be an automatic byproduct of an internet that prevents automatic surveillance.

> “The standard operating procedure for the Domestic Surveillance Directorate is to ‘collect all available information from all available sources all the time, every time, always.’”

This will never change, and I would go so far as to suggest it's even a reasonable position to take, from someone who's job it is to collect information for the government. What we need to do is make our internet usage unavailable to onlookers.




Net neutrality by encryption seems like a much better idea than government imposed NN. It's optional and not one size fits all.

Let's encrypt all the things!


I take it you've never had WiFi drop your connection when you start using a VPN?


Yep, and then I switched to OpenVPN! :)




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