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Manifesto Calls For 'Rebel Cities' To Reject Surveillance (decentralize.today)
Presto Vivace quotes an article from the Coding Rights magazine Oficina Antivigilancia urging readers to "connect with other rebel cities and collectives". It was re-posted on Decentralize.Today by a Guatemalan Human Rights Lawyer (and member of the Creative Commons Board of Directors).
To free ourselves from surveillance and other repressive and authoritarian forms of power...we must immediately activate the mechanisms of law that allow us to oversee the functions of mass surveillance systems in our cities. And do this collectively, in coordination with other cities affected by the problem. Just as there are Smart Cities networks we should form our own Rebel Cities networks where surveillance is rejected and participatory democracy is affirmed, a democracy framed in respect for human rights and diversity, focused on collective solutions, which is the true path to safer cities. Not cameras.
We can then simultaneously activate collaborative mechanisms to prevent their expansion. Make freedom of information requests for public information detailing their costs. Demand studies on their results. Take serious legal action in face of possible illegal uses of surveillance for discriminatory policies. Demand from authorities protection of personal data where it exists, and where it does not, demand that human rights authorities undertake feasibility studies, weighing the impact on individual guarantees before installing systems. Democracy begins and ends there. In its exercise.
We can then simultaneously activate collaborative mechanisms to prevent their expansion. Make freedom of information requests for public information detailing their costs. Demand studies on their results. Take serious legal action in face of possible illegal uses of surveillance for discriminatory policies. Demand from authorities protection of personal data where it exists, and where it does not, demand that human rights authorities undertake feasibility studies, weighing the impact on individual guarantees before installing systems. Democracy begins and ends there. In its exercise.
who wins your city council race is important.
are you going to be building these cities?
A "manifesto", eh? That'll get people's attention!
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Because if they use computers of any form factor, it's game over man.
An entire community of people who do not want to be surveiled? What better target for surveillance could there possibly be, for an organization like the NSA or FBI?
Unless you only allow in the upper 0.01% of the most technically literate and most paranoid individuals, who can pass some rigorous criteria up front - the kind of people who do not own a mobile phone, use only FreeBSD and Lynx to browse the web through a proxy, and make all purchases in cash - your "rebel city" IS going to be subject to surveillance.
Like Putin, the authorities will plant bombings and blame it on lack of surveillance.
Stop using the internet, the cell phone, the landline phone, the credit and debit card, the WiFi and Bluetooth gizmos and any banking system. Then maybe you'll have done a real step against surveillance.
Sent as ripples into the electromagnetic field. No single photon has been harmed in the process.
You know what needs to be done.
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Why does this whole shit suddenly remind me of #fuckparis?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Be quiet you straight-hating coward. When YOU become owner/editor then you can post the stories you want. I'm interested in news of it myself, but NOT here, unless as has already been explained, something develops that impacts everyone, like gun rights or freedom affecting legislation, or like say 9/11, shuts down all air traffic, etc. You're not helping your "cause", and might end up having a new term coined, fag-spamming. Besides I'm sure you've already upvoted the story(s) in the firehose right? If enough people do, then they'll probably post it, if they don't, then the nerds have spoken. Many actually come here to find stories that aren't everywhere else, and I'm sure this story is.
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Never has, never will. The revolution submitter seeks would make things far, far worse.
To implement collective solutions to security and safety, the city has to implement comprehensive building code, development board and zoning system to keep the development under the rule of law. Underdeveloped and organically grown cities tend to neglect those to get investors for new development easier. Corruption it is often called. Participatory democracy starts with communication between the authorities and the involved in each particular decision. The slum dwellers of an organically developed cities probably won't be present in those community events presenting the plans for new developments.
Every straight man is disgusted by gays. Tolerance is the best way. However, tolerance is NOT approval.
The PC bullshit stance is that approval and endorsement are the only forms of acceptance - everything else is "hatred". Either these people know they are lying, or they have never seen real hatred before. Tolerance from the standpoint of believing that consenting adults have the right to do what they want behind closed doors is a worthy ideal. Demanding approval is more of a power grab.
Collective solutions is nothing but vapor solutions lol.
This is how the Rebel Alliance got started. And how the Empire became determined to crush them!
This is a non-US story, as it cannot be implemented within the US.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Who writes this crap? Cities, meaning here, municipal authorities, don't choose surveillance laws; that's an indirect process involving bureaucrats, politicians and voters.
To free ourselves from surveillance and other repressive and authoritarian forms of power ...
The US constitution starts with "We, the people ... " for a reason. It recognizes that the people must form a government and check it functions correctly. When corporations choose the laws, when the people distract themselves with bread and circuses, government power avoids the rule of law. Many patriots, realizing bullets are not the answer, say one must fight government with the law. But one cannot use the law against a government that does not obey laws. Presently, there is no answer to this paradox.
Where the resource is a localized point, like an airport or seaport, solidarity can be enforced and federal employees denied. In the case of a 1,000 kilometre backbone, federal employees can tap it anywhere, probably without the adjacent cities being any wiser.
First, one needs mechanisms that says the federal government cannot perform mass surveillance. Second, one needs a way to punish the federal government for disobeying it's own laws. Third, one needs transparency, so the first 2 can be activated. Fourth, one needs a way to exclude federal employees from a city without collapsing into civil war or anarchy.
That means rejecting federal power over communications structure and the land holding them; plus rejecting the authority of federal power to disobey state and municipal laws. With that achieved, one is not a country anymore.
That's a bad name if you want great uptake. Too generic, too militant sounding. How about spy-free zones instead.
Don't forget to rally against "internet of things" which is a privacy disaster waiting to happen.
And make sure you have options to recommend people in these cities for televisions, etc. Some TV's spy on their users.