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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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What are you going to do when the internet starts asking for ID for everything? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34006757

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A simple Web-like hypertext system without styles and scripts. The protocol can be implemented in two days by a complete idiot (I have my own Gemini viewer, I may not be terribly proud of it, but I like it).

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this like Gopher?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but with modern technologies where easily done. TLS, markdown-like markup, MIME, prompts for input.

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting, I'll check it out