This document discusses various topics around life, thoughts, and movement in the digital age. It addresses issues like government overreach, data privacy, media influence, censorship, surveillance, and proposes alternatives like privacy by design, anonymity, fact checking, and legal protections for whistleblowers. The document suggests people can work to advance positive change through civic engagement, legal challenges, technical solutions, and supporting organizations that fight for digital rights and freedoms.
7. # life governments
1. Each Member State shall take the necessary measures
to ensure that the intentional acts referred to in
paragraph 2 [e.g. threatening to kidnap] (…) are defined as
terrorist offences where committed with the aim of one or
more of the following:
(a) seriously intimidating a population;
(b) unduly compelling a Government or international
organisation to perform or abstain from performing any act
- Draft EU Directive on Combating Terrorism, Article 3
13. “We might well be moving from the
internet of things to the internet of me.
Yet, it seems that what the internet of me
is really achieving is to advance new
ways of treating the self, not as a person,
but as a “thing”.”
— André Spicer and Carl Cederström, 2015
# life ourselves
20. “One resists the invasion of
armies; one does not resist
the invasion of ideas.”
— Victor Hugo, Histoire d'un Crime, 1877
# thoughts counter-narratives
24. “(...) the powerful are able to fix the premises
of the discourse, to decide what the general
populace is allowed to see, hear, and think
about and to ‘manage’ public opinion by
regular propaganda campaigns.”
— Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, Manufacturing Consent: The Political
Economy of the Mass Media,1988
# thoughts counter-narratives
26. # media civic-engineering
"Emotions expressed by friends, via online
social networks, influence our own moods,
constituting, to our knowledge, the first
experimental evidence for massive-scale
emotional contagion via social networks."
- Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock, “Experimental
evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks”,
2014
43. “(...) people can travel infinitely and
“freely” without being confined while
being perfectly controlled. That is our
future."
— Gilles Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness,
Texts and Interviews 1975-1995
# thoughts counter-narratives