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euniveve · 8 days ago

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No because I've been made to feel like an old man yelling at clouds when for YEARS I brought up how weird and dangerous it was that we were shifting towards a "if you don't have your legal name, age and other sensible infos in bio (medical diagnosis?? triggers?? sexuality you name it) you are NOT to be trusted!!!!!" mentality, but LOOK AT US NOW! LOOK AROUND!!

We've normalised putting our real selves so much online because "otherwise we don't know who could be a creep" that corporations feel SO safe and sound asking us for our IDs, shoving fucking face recognition and age assumptions algorithms down our throats. Because now kids aren't taught by older kids to lie on the internet, adults aren't infusing them with the Fear Of The Big Bad Internet like they did with us, nobody is creating an internet persona anymore because we normalised selling ourselves out to every social media ever.

"But how will we know if you're a bad person" you cannot! You simply!! Cannot!!! Can you immediately tell if a stranger is a danger to society?? If you think you can you are wrong and will most likely be sending an innocent to jail and your kid into a confessional. The big truth about the internet has and should always be that you cannot know who's on the other side of the screen and you gotta be weary. That's it. No you shouldn't "try and make it safer for the kids" by enforcing id identification on everyone because NO corporation is doing that to protect the kids, they're doing it to track down who they might think is the most undesirable and shut them up.

I love to say "I told you so" but I really wish it wouldn't have come down to it...

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euniveve · 8 days ago

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For anyone that even cares

Peaceful Labour Demonstration Met with Violent Escalation by the Indonesian Government

Civilians in several cities in Indonesia have been protesting on the streets, in response to our House of Representatives insensitive and derogatory remarks amidst difficult economic climate.

It was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration led by laborers and university students, but our government choose to ignore and even violently escalating it with police brutality + shooting tear gas. What sparked a nationwide outrage was during 28 August protest in the evening, one of the armored police/soldier truck sped up intending to run over protestors and it struck over a Gojek driver (ride hailing driver, similar to Uber) that fell when crossing the road amidst the chaos. The truck did stop but decided to ram the gas and ran over him when he's trying to stand, with other protestors shouting for them to stop.

The Gojek driver's name is Affan Kurniawan. He's just 21 years old, the breadwinner of his family. He lived with seven other people in a cramped small rented room. He was not even participating in the demonstration, at the time of his death he was WORKING. He was trying to complete a food delivery order before he was killed.

This incident was documented clear as day with several videos from different povs. Here's the most prominent one.

In response to Affan's death, nationwide protests are held on the following day. (29 August)

The protests continued even today on 30th August and it keeps on escalating. The government is now trying to frame the protesters as violent anarchists, they're trying to use the same tactic as the '98 tragedy. They've been deploying provocators and intels to riot and burn public transport station, even going as far as raiding several (decoy) houses that belongs to members of the House of Representatives. They've also taken several hostages, reports of kidnapping as per 28 August is 400+.

They have been turning off electricity access in several parts of Jakarta and just greenlit snipers and soldiers to shoot protestors on the head with rubber bullets. There's already several victims.

They've also blocked access to TikTok live and even tried to erase/take down several of video proof of police brutality. Police are now sweeping several areas and civilians are alerting each other to be careful and to stay safe and not answer the door.

So yes. Please pray and check up on your friend that lives in Indonesia. I fear that there's going to be a military emergency implemented by our warcrime president. If possible please help save the video proofs because our government are cracking down to erase any proof of violence.

Here's more background information about the events that leads to the demonstration:

Video explanation from Al Jazeera that interviewed one of us:

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euniveve · 9 days ago