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We all need to rise up and fight this.
Later will be too late.
Start with the easy stuff. Get those around you off WhatsApp and Discord.
Even if we get people to shift to privacy respecting or encrypted apps, the problem still stands. They could just ask you to give access to those services. If you don't, it would come with its own legal challenges.
Solving the issue would need to come from challenging the act itself.
If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn't affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.
Bottom line: As long as you don't touch the street dogs you can get away with anything
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I hate that you are right. I really wanted to do something to make a difference, but it's saddening to see no one batting an eye to this.
But you can do something to make a difference, get others to care. How? See this:
https://lemmy.world/comment/19227806
You are right. This is the least I can do.
Thanks for the words of encouragement.
They won't know what we're using.
If you can't challenge a few apps, you'll never challenge that.
tellling a normie to quit using spyware.... might as well call his mother a whore while at it.
Skill issue. If you can't fix this, how will you ever fix that?
See part 1: https://lemmy.world/post/35312231
They have to come around it themselves.
I just plant seed, they come back once they are ready to have the adult discussion.
it took years to move my friends into privacy focused product. with each new fiasco one or two would reach out.
This is the way. Make a post. It would help a lot of people.
Do you really think it is feasible to convert people to less convenient alternative? What are you going to do, force them at a gunpoint?
I've already done it and I never needed force.
An app is never convenient when we do not control it.