Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.

✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org

📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr

📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app

🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org

📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com

🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.

We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before!

#Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

^cryptpad.fr

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück. Essay von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer.

#democracy #politik #Rechtsstaat #Demokratie

Die Welt kehrt zu den Gesetzen des Dschungels zurück - Europa Blog

Was können wir heute von Homer, Machiavelli und dem Herzog von Sachsen lernen? Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer untersucht, wie alte Denkweisen über Macht und Entscheidungsfindung in einer Zeit der Desinformation und politischen Umbrüche wieder relevant werden…

^{Jürgen Klute (Europa Blog)}

📣 The number of followers of German scientific institutions in the #Fediverse surpassed the 160k mark 💥 last weekend, see
👉 https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/?liste=institute-de

Yes, it's true: we shouldn't get caught up in this nonsensical discussion about #reach in the Fediverse.
On the other hand, it’s a great success 🏆 for initiatives such as #Unis4Mastodon, #Byebyeelon, #WissXit, #SaveSocial, @helloQuitX and others that more than 150 research institutions in Germany are contributing to the expansion of the Fediverse.

To our friends in the #USA, we say that we are alarmed at how the new #USpolicy is attacking #science. We are trying to build decentralized and independent #socialnetworks to make our research institutions and democracy resilient to attacks from #autocrats and #hostilitytoscience.
And we think this transformation should happen in other countries, too, to strengthen #democracy.

#SciComm #eXit

#Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he criticized labeling of #AfD as ‘extremist’

“This is #democracy. It is independent courts that will have the final say. We have learnt from our history that #RightWing #extremism needs to be stopped.”

AfD “aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society, to subject them to unconstitutional unequal treatment and thus to assign them a legally devalued status”.

It also said: “This exclusionary understanding of the people is the starting point and ideological basis for ongoing agitation against certain individuals or groups of people, through which they are defamed and despised indiscriminately and irrational fears and rejection are stirred up.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/marco-rubio-germany-afd

#fascism #Trump #FarRight #Nazi #dictatorship

Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he panned labeling of AfD as ‘extremist’

Far-right German party was labeled a ‘confirmed rightwing extremist group’ by country’s domestic intelligence service

^{Maya Yang (The Guardian)}

Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step | Hanno Hauenstein | The Guardian

#politics #democracy #Zionism #fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/germany-deporting-pro-palestine-eu-citizens-chilling-new-step

Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens. This is a chilling new step

The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight, says Hanno Hauenstein, a Berlin-based journalist

^{Hanno Hauenstein (The Guardian)}

#fediTips

Hi there @utopiarte,
I'm observing this #poll question on the #friendica @helpers #group from over here on a #mastodon instance and can't like, only fav, yet actually I'd like to be against this proposal as it is very dangerous!

I wouldn't put my name on the line in this internet for poll's by name vote, #democracy or even post an opinion.

That's way to dangerous in the actually #zeitGeist of #neoLiberalFascist's having the thumb on LLM's to hunt us down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxNZduzm6B8

Grüss mir die Genossen

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^YouTube

Oligarchy.

#ElonMusk #Trump #democracy #USA #oligarchy

That a Western democracy uses mass repression against climate activists is not the an aberration of the democratic principle but the fullest conclusion of it. Democracy emerged at a specific historical context contingent on the development of the capitalist mode of production and of the exploitation of fossil fuels to fuel the valorization process. Within this specific historical context, we cannot expect democracy to do any different. #ClimateCrisis #Democracy

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/10/dutch-police-use-water-cannon-detain-2400-climate-activists?traffic_source=rss&utm_source=press.coop

Dutch police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists

More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague, ignoring warnings from authorities not to do so.

^{Al Jazeera}

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