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A Strange Stain in the Sky: How Silicon Valley Is Preparing A Coup Against Democracy (allr.cat)

submitted 1 week ago by crossdl@leminal.space to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The first, and also the most futuristic techno-utopian one, is the colonisation of Mars. Elon Musk founded Space X in 2002 (Peter Thiel was the first outside investor) with the idea of re-founding humanity. It’s all there: the call to save humanity by turning it into a multi-planetary species, the desire to start from scratch without the legal constraints of Earth, and the will to break with the established order. As you can read, half-hidden, on the terms and conditions page of the Starlink service owned by Space X:

The parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities.

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[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't have a smart device atm. I axed mine when I realised what was happening. I'm hoping to get one of Purism's devices soon. Moreso, I would love to fundraise (charity Livestream, podcast with promotional advertising, video series etc.) to fund Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS to get them proliferated across more devices. The folks who do the Linux After Dark Podcast, one of them I know took over the Ubuntu Touch project from Canonical. It would be awesome to put together a project to raise some awareness of the situation we find ourselves in and some money to take the power away from Big Tech.

The Privacy Guy seems like a decent dude, if one of them were functional across a broader range of devices, he might put it on some of his de-googled phones.