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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.
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.
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.
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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.
This is a non-US story, as it cannot be implemented within the US.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
Never has, never will. The revolution submitter seeks would make things far, far worse.
Legal limitations on surveillance in public places are far more likely to be used to suppress freedom of the press and cover up systemic corruption and crime than they would actually protect anyone's privacy. Look at all the laws meant to prosecute animal rights or environmental activists that take video on private property for instance, these "privacy" laws are used to target whistle blowers that expose mistreatment of animals or even contamination of the water supply.