"Facebook, Google and Amazon have not just colonised the internet: their hubs, campuses and offices are taking over huge sections of cities around the world. But campaigners from New York to Toronto and Berlin are fighting back"

Solidarity from Berlin to SF to Toronto to Rennes to NYC! <3

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffGoogleAndCo #FuckOffAmazon

**Independence Day** @iday@mastodonten.de · Jan 28, 2019, 20:24

**Independence Day** @iday@mastodonten.de · Jan 28, 2019, 20:24

Jan 28, 2019, 20:24

Independence Day @iday@mastodonten.de

After great fights against #Facebook, #Avaaz is now looking for a larger team to fight disinformation and political manipulation:

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/disinfo_team_apply/?cRWGbbb

**Independence Day** · Jan 24, 2019, 20:58

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**SV - Creative 🇧🇪** @Steven_Vervaecke@mastodon.pirateparty.be · Jan 24, 2019, 20:58

Jan 24, 2019, 20:58

SV - Creative 🇧🇪 @Steven_Vervaecke@mastodon.pirateparty.be

whoops; there goes big social(down the drain) if this is true, then everything about fb is fake, in every detail. we are being conned till the moon turns blue.

I hope they get punished for that with bankrupcy. It is more good news for the distributed web.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-24/facebook-slides-after-report-claims-50-its-users-are-fake

**Independence Day** · Dec 16, 2018, 04:53

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**Joseph Nuthalapati** @njoseph@social.masto.host · Dec 16, 2018, 04:53

Dec 16, 2018, 04:53

Joseph Nuthalapati @njoseph@social.masto.host

Digital Empowerment in Rural India - powered by FreedomBox.

Sudhamsh Kandukuri and I presented yesterday at XConf India 2018.

An inspiring story of a grassroots movement where people rejected Facebook's Free Basics and installed low-cost community Wi-Fi networks instead.
A FreedomBox on the network provides most of the essential digital services required, offline.

Slides:
https://njoseph.me/~joseph/Digital%20Empowerment%20in%20Rural%20India.pdf

Video recording: coming soon!

#FreedomBox #Swecha #FSMI #XConfIndia #ThoughtWorks

**Independence Day** @iday@mastodonten.de · Dec 15, 2018, 10:03

**Independence Day** @iday@mastodonten.de · Dec 15, 2018, 10:03

Dec 15, 2018, 10:03

Independence Day @iday@mastodonten.de

The #GiletsJaunes prepare to ask today more direct #democracy and demand to insert the “Referendum of Citizen Initiative” (#RIC) into the Constitution [1].

The Gilets Jaunes often did #DeleteWhatsApp and are organizing around #Telegram. That’s maybe why they are so successful.

But there is more out there to escape the Orwellian state:

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives
https://switching.social/
https://iday.im

Good luck !!

[1] http://www.leparisien.fr/politique/c-est-quoi-le-ric-le-referendum-que-reclament-les-gilets-jaunes-10-12-2018-7965093.php

#FuckOffGoogle #iday #DeleteFacebook

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**Independence Day** · Dec 09, 2018, 13:06

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**Nex** @botherder@mastodon.social · Dec 09, 2018, 13:06

Dec 09, 2018, 13:06

Nex @botherder@mastodon.social

I released a new version of my Firefox extension that will forcefully redirect you away from privacy erosive services to better alternatives. It started as a joke, but I end up actually using it.

When I want to look up a place, I instinctively and mechanically start typing "maps.googl...". This extension will instead take me to OpenStreetMaps. It will also functionally translate Google Search links to DuckDuckGo and Google Translate links to Deepl.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resist-the-internet/

#FuckOffGoogle

**Independence Day** · Dec 05, 2018, 13:57

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**FUCK OFF GOOGLE!1!!!1** @FuckOffGoogle@mastodon.social · Dec 05, 2018, 13:57

Dec 05, 2018, 13:57

FUCK OFF GOOGLE!1!!!1 @FuckOffGoogle@mastodon.social

NOISE AGAINST GOOGLE &CO!

Friday 07/12 - 18:00 - Umspannwerk, #Kreuzberg, #Berlin

https://wiki.fuckoffgoogle.de/index.php?title=MobilizeActions#Every_First_Friday_of_the_Month_-_18:00_-_NOISE_AGAINST_GOOGLE_-_Make_some_NOISE.21

Google &co still watching!!

While #google canceled its "campus" in #Kreuzberg, they still occupy the building, while tech-startup bullshit still hits hard on the 'hood.

Join a festive occasion of meeting with neighbors, having fun and moving towards the next steps of action! <3

#FuckOffGoogle #StartUpRevolt #ShutDownGoogle #BringTheNoise

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**Independence Day** · Dec 02, 2018, 11:20

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**Aral Balkan** @aral@mastodon.ar.al · Dec 02, 2018, 11:20

Dec 02, 2018, 11:20

Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al

5 years ago: Digital Feudalism and How to Avoid It

https://vimeo.com/77257232

I learned a lot in those five years and we’re still working for the same goals. Surveillance Capitalism is worse than it ever was but we also have new hopes: @Purism, Mastodon, @gnome, DAT, …

The one thing I’d change is to replace “open source” with “ethical technology” and “free (as in freedom)” in my words.