Yeah, I did see that post, but now it’s buried under a bunch of newer stuff. What I meant by “the whole FOSS community being so eerily silent” wasn’t that literally everyone’s silent (otherwise I’d be clueless), but more like people aren’t speaking up enough about how serious things are.
Look, I’m sorry for bringing this topic up again and again, but I’m feeling pretty bummed out and confused. Remember when everyone banded together to oppose SOPA and PIPA, blanketed the entire Web with banners and even convincing Wikipedia to go dark? It actually worked, and it felt like we saved the internet from turning into a total nightmare! And even though we lost the similar battle for Net Neutrality a few years later, at least we tried and got people talking about it.
Now we’re facing a way bigger threat - the supposed “free” world’s leading powers are seemingly teaming up to make it illegal for our tech NOT to spy on us. Even if it’s not the right time to start making serious noise, I’d still expect all privacy-related projects to speak out early and be on top of new developments.
But instead, it appears that everyone has withdrawn into different levels of denial. I2P hasn’t said anything about it, Tor’s Global Encryption Day post doesn’t mention the bills that could render it pointless, and Signal’s latest post makes it seem like it’s only a UK problem. Plus, even though they warned about the EARN IT Act when it was first introduced, they haven’t said anything about its reintroductions or Chat Control…
It’s really sad to see Internet freedom ruined like this. I thought we’d fight til the bitter end, but it seems like we’re just quietly accepting its demise…