silveradept | (Reply)

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I also don't like having to make decisions between installing an operating system on a smartphone of my choosing and not being able to partake in cultural phenomena, but that also happens when someone gets overbroad and zealous about making sure a phone has never had anything that might lead to modification done to it.

I so hear this. :(((

Am currently pondering whether (once Legacy gets off the ground) I might want to have two user accounts on my phone and tablet: one with GApps (if it's possible to install GApps on just one user account not the entire device -- I haven't checked that yet) for Things Which Want To Invade My Privacy, and one with F-Droid not GApps, for everything else. That way I could only boot into the Nosey Apps account when I want to use an app requiring it. Am also pondering whether this is anything more than a token protest, and whether such token protests have any value. (Other than making me feel slightly better emotionally.)

Getting back to the actual point that started this post, the decision by the Internet Archive should be seen as good practice - since a lot of the servers that power websites and other things are located in the United States, it seems life a very prudent idea to have an off-site backup, in case the political climate shifts so strongly that the information in the Archive is at risk.

*nodnod*

People become creative and inventive in the ways that they route around censors and others who wish to stand in the way of information. Onion routing, for example, or the use of the virtual private network.

The Australian High Court's just ruled that ISPs have to ban torrenting sites. The entire country responded to that with a hearty laugh. Some of the specific torrenting sites ISPs must now ban have been already offline for years.