lumpen 🍉 III (@scrum)

@smallpatatas

yeah, and it's even worse when talking about Telegram, even though he admits that T. is not encrypted, he still frames it as an attack on encryption, which is bizarre, also saying 'we don't know why the CEO was arrested" when we have a pretty good idea, it has to do with telegram execs being active participants in serious crimes still under investigation, CSAM and hatespeech is distributed publicly on Telegram, Durov can't say "well it's encrypted so how could I know" because it's not

This whole "sovereignty vs human rights"thing has been really fucking up my brain since i read it lol. So where does the interest of corporations and tech billionaires fit into this? it would seem that falls under 'human rights' (!), so this entire framing arbitrary puts tech CEO's and Corporations on the same side as end users, like favela dwelling brazillians, who are both having their human rights challenged by the sovereignty of the state.

Consider the possibility that state regulation of megacorporations isn't just a matter of sovereignty but the state attempting to protect the human rights of it's citizens, from hate speech, election interference, CSAM etc. i You could also frame this as a clash of sovereignty, between Corporations and Governments, human rights being a non consideration of either side. Or Twitter being an American based corporation is necessarily an arm of US imperialism, so the argument Cory's making basically says any attempt at resistance on behalf of countries in global south against US tech firms is a threat to human rights!

Cory certainly wouldn't agree if you put it that way, this is just the danger of falling back on oversimplified cliches