So, you live in the US and you want to be less exposed to #ICE #surveillance. It's been fairly well reported by 404 Media, Wired and others that ICE has ramped up its ability track our daily movement/location thanks to the our willingly carrying self-surveillance/tracking devices. Why make it easy for them? Why self-report to fascists? This is not a requirement.

Here's how we stop self-surveillance in several fairly easy steps...

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So, you live in the US and you want to be less exposed to #ICE #surveillance. It's been fairly well reported by 404 Media, Wired and others that ICE has ramped up its ability track our daily movement/location thanks to the our willingly carrying self-surveillance/tracking devices. Why make it easy for them? Why self-report to fascists? This is not a requirement.

Here's how we stop self-surveillance in several fairly easy steps...

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@wegegeld True but I've got more control than I would have otherwise. This will do for now. I think the point is to make real effort to move in a better direction. And, equally important, that we help others to do so. We can all be helpers offering #mutualaid in our communities to assist others off of #BigTech #Surveillance platforms that do not respect our #privacy.

The design of the Cinnamon Desktop on #Mint is fantastic with easy to use UI that's not enshitified by a company that produces things like Liquid Glass because they've got to always be shitting out the next new thing because profit, profit, profit.

There is no Wall Street/ shareholder pleasing going on.

This is an OS and software ecosystem by and for users, NOT constant grift and rent seeking.

No ads, no intrusion, no #surveillance.

#LinuxMint #Linux #Tech #Apple #Microsoft #Google

Here are some sceenshots of Mint on a 2018 Lenovo laptop I bought for $250 on Ebay. I'll be able to use this laptop for many years to come, far longer than any Mac computer runs macOS.

It boots faster than an M1 MacMini running macOS. Apps launch faster than they do on the Mac. No #Apple #surveillance. Full control of MY device with a free, #privacy respecting OS produced by people concerned not with profit but with making a great OS. Same for the #FreeSoftware I use everyday.

"French lawmakers are preparing a renewed push to limit children’s online exposure, unveiling a proposal that would block anyone under 15 from using social media platforms.

The draft legislation, reviewed by AFP, sets September 2026 as the target date for enforcement.

President Emmanuel Macron has endorsed the plan and urged Parliament to take it up.

France’s effort follows a similar move in Australia, which recently became the first country to impose an outright ban on under-16s accessing social media.

To apply such a rule, online platforms would need to verify every user’s age at sign-up or login. This would go far beyond the current model of self-declared birthdays and instead rely on official credentials such as national IDs, driver’s licenses, or government-backed digital identity wallets.

In effect, it would introduce a form of digital ID into everyday internet use."

https://reclaimthenet.org/france-social-media-ban-under-15-digital-id-age-verification

#France #EU #Macron #SocialMedia #NannyState #PoliceState #Censorship #DigitalID #AgeVerification #Surveillance #Privacy

"French lawmakers are preparing a renewed push to limit children’s online exposure, unveiling a proposal that would block anyone under 15 from using social media platforms.

The draft legislation, reviewed by AFP, sets September 2026 as the target date for enforcement.

President Emmanuel Macron has endorsed the plan and urged Parliament to take it up.

France’s effort follows a similar move in Australia, which recently became the first country to impose an outright ban on under-16s accessing social media.

To apply such a rule, online platforms would need to verify every user’s age at sign-up or login. This would go far beyond the current model of self-declared birthdays and instead rely on official credentials such as national IDs, driver’s licenses, or government-backed digital identity wallets.

In effect, it would introduce a form of digital ID into everyday internet use."

https://reclaimthenet.org/france-social-media-ban-under-15-digital-id-age-verification

#France #EU #Macron #SocialMedia #NannyState #PoliceState #Censorship #DigitalID #AgeVerification #Surveillance #Privacy