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“I thought that patrol staffing is struggling right now,” said Councilor Angelita Morillo, who has also raised tough questions about the Police Bureau. “The whole thing just looks a little weird.”

oregonlive.com/crime/2025/03/a

PPB & PPA always pretend to be so beleaguered, but constantly find resources for gratuitous, anti-democratic intimidation tactics. Uniformed officers with qualified immunity to kill Portlanders, acting like vindictive, creepy little bigots.

oregonlive · A Portland councilor tangled with police. Uniformed cops descended on his town hallBy Zaeem Shaikh | The Oregonian/OregonLive
#ppb#ppa#Portland
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@openrightsgroup I'd like to offer a potential solution to the issue at hand. Wouldn't it be sufficient to change the legal entity to one outside of the UK and relocate the physical hosting to another country? This way, UK law would not be applicable, and enforcement would be more challenging for governments.

In general, it's often too expensive for governments to pursue lawsuits in other jurisdictions, and local authorities are not eager to facilitate international law enforcement. I think it's worth exploring the possibility of finding someone to create a LLC or similar legal entity to act as the legal responsible party.

As I'm sure you're aware, many fellow entrepreneurs here have experience with setting up legal entities, and you could probably find someone willing to help. Additionally, I believe that many users here have experience with running servers, so it's likely that we could find someone to help with the technical aspects as well.

If someone from the UK were to approach me about setting up a company for a good cause in Switzerland, the US, or the EU, I would be happy to help, and I'm sure many others here would feel the same way. What do you think?

#freespeach #uklew @dee #OSA #ChillingEffect #OnlineSafetyAct

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(13/N) The sixth, and last, category of adversaries:

“They”

“They” want to define boundaries and acceptable behavior for the masses, as well as monitor compliance on a large scale, and enforce it on an individual level.

As a consequence, permanent mass #surveillance of all types of assets is a means of monitoring the compliance of the majority, and of detecting deviant behavior. Legalizing more and more monitoring options becomes a goal, including international partnerships on information exchange. Depriving you of your assets, temporarily or permanently, is a means of enforcing your compliance or obedience. The mere threat of this can be sufficient to create a #ChillingEffect.

State-sponsored actors (such as hacker groups) and nation-state threat actors (in the form of intelligence services, law enforcement, censorship offices, and other #government agencies) fall into this category. It also includes #companies that have either a monopoly, or a significant share of an oligopolistic market, or portfolio of services specifically targeted at the public sector.

While the entities in this category may seem wildly heterogeneous at first, remember that there are #RevolvingDoors between them, for swapping their respective “ex” members. Beyond lobbying, there is also a complex, ongoing collaboration between many of them, which has been described as “grey intelligence”, “grey policing”, “public-private partnership”, etc.

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mastodon.de/@tuxwise/113503228

MastodonDEtuxwise (@tuxwise@mastodon.de)(1/N) With more challenging times ahead, the #4D​s will become more important, too: ✋ **Defend** your boundaries: know what matters to you, and properly safeguard it – instead of being an alert-driven option tinkerer. 🪪 **Define** yourself: use multiple identities that focus on a single purpose each – instead of having everything you do, have and think linked back directly to you. 👑 **Decide** like a sovereign: get to know your needs, and what meets them best – instead of sacrificing them to the interests of others. 🌐 **Dwell** the space: seek community, practice solidarity and citizenship – instead of being beaten a little later than others, in a glorious bunker. In the future, I'll post a few ideas and suggestions based on the 4Ds. BTW, I have dropped the adjective "#digital" from my vocabulary. There is no more separate "digital sphere" or "cyberspace" that wasn't part of our everyday lives. #privacy #security #anonymity

#RfC: Should a blackout be organized in protest of the Wikimedia Foundation's actions?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

As part of the ongoing court case #ANI vs. #WMF, the WMF has received orders from the #DelhiHighCourt to disclose #PersonallyIdentifyingInformation of editors in a sealed cover letter and is considering complying.

Should the English #Wikipedia blackout all of the site for 2-3 days in protest of this?

Option A: Yes
Option B: No

en.wikipedia.orgWikipedia:Requests for comment/2024 Wikipedia blackout - Wikipedia

Newspaper advertisement warning to all Australians, that the #USA has a Law of #UniversalJurisdiction and that the scapegoat #journalist being blamed for the decline of the US, #JulianAssange is its target now, but "it can happen to anyone".

dicksmithfairgo.com.au/newspap

This is from #DickSmith's website (Jan 2022). Distractions might be tempting but #Australia need to start getting off their backsides on this.