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Destroying Autocracy – May 01, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Happy May Day! Cast off your chains.
Featured Item(s)
Cory Doctorow writes:
The point of AI isn’t to make workers more productive, it’s to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses.
Tech workers are workers, and they once held the line against enshittification, refusing to break the things they’d built for their bosses in meaningless all-nighters motivated by vocational awe. Long after tech bosses were able to buy all their competitors, capture their regulators, and expand IP law to neutralize the threat of innovative, interoperable products like alternative app stores, ad-blockers and jailbreaking kits, tech workers held the line.
There’ve been half a million US tech layoff since 2023. Tech workers’ scarcity-derived power has been vaporized. Tech workers can avoid the fate of the factory, warehouse and delivery workers their bosses literally work to death — but only by unionizing.
In other words, the workers in re-shored factories and tech workers need the same thing. They are class allies — and tech bosses are their class enemies. This is class war.
The enshittification of tech jobs
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes, TechnoFeudalism, and other douchebaggery
Tech Policy reports:
Labor Unions Can Counterbalance the Big Tech Oligarchy, But Only If They Rediscover Their Power
Expats Czechia reports:
Court rules that Czechia collects phone data illegally in landmark decision
Mashable reports:
Elon Musk’s X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
Calyx Institute: A Case Study in Grassroots Innovation
EFF Leads Prominent Security Experts in Urging Trump Administration to Leave Chris Krebs Alone
EuroNews reports:
EU governments discuss action on disinformation over climate policy
Bleeping Computer reports:
TikTok fined €530 million for sending European user data to China
Fast Company reports:
How Big Tech’s Faustian bargain with Trump backfired
Framablog has:
The Verge reports:
A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store
The Register reports:
Cook’d: Judge says Apple lied to court in Epic case, asks Feds to mull criminal charges
Double awesome.
TechCrunch reports:
Apple changes US App Store rules to let apps link to external payment systems
Neutral
The Register reports:
DARPA to ‘radically’ rev up mathematics research. And yes, with AI
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety has:
Science and Causality in Technology Litigation
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
TechDirt has:
Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
Ars Technica reports:
Trump’s hasty Take It Down Act has “gaping flaws” that threaten encryption
Micah Flee looks at:
TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials
The Register reports:
DOGE may help Elon Musk’s biz empire dodge $2.4B in liabilities – Senate probe
Framablog looks at:
L’État artificiel : la vie civique automatisée
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
France ties Russian APT28 hackers to 12 cyberattacks on French orgs
Pro-Russia hacktivists bombard Dutch public orgs with DDoS attacks
DarkReading has:
Putin’s Cyberattacks on Ukraine Rise 70%, With Little Effect
Adversaries Are Toying With US Networks & DC Is Short on Answers
Billbug Expands Cyber-Espionage Campaign in Southeast Asia
The Register reports:
China now America’s number one cyber threat – US must get up to speed
Open source text editor poisoned with malware to target Uyghur users
Big Media
NPR reports:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump after he tries to fire board members
Ars Technica reports:
“Blatantly unlawful”: Trump slammed for trying to defund PBS, NPR
The Daily Beast reports:
MAGA Billionaire Leads L.A. Times to Lose $50 Million
Ars Technica reports:
CBS owner Paramount reportedly intends to settle Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit
Big Tech
Semafor reports:
The group chats that changed America
The Guardian reports:
Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators
Meta slowest to remove scam content, says City watchdog
TechCrunch reports:
Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors
OpenAI is fixing a ‘bug’ that allowed minors to generate erotic conversations
404 Media has:
Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
Mbin or PieFed, peeps.
This Is Palantir’s Justification for Building ICE’s Master Database
Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists
The Markup reports:
Kids should avoid AI companion bots—under force of law, assessment says
The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:
Report – In Deep Trouble: Surfacing Tech-Powered Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools
Cybersecurity/Privacy
Lawfare covers:
Advancing Secure by Design through Security Research
404 Media reports:
The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
The Markup reports:
How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn
BleepingComputer reports:
Hackers ramp up scans for leaked Git tokens and secrets
FBI shares massive list of 42,000 LabHost phishing domains
Tech Policy Press reports:
Reverse Keyword Search Warrants and the Threat to Online Privacy
The Jacobin reports:
Big Tech Wants Free Rein to Sell Your Data
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Fosstodon has more on its drama:
ActivityPub for WordPress announces:
V5.8.0 – If it’s on the Fediverse, you can embed it.
ActivityPods shares:
Key learnings from building social apps with ActivityPods
Forgejo has:
Forgejo monthly update – April 2025
The Social Web Foundation has:
Steps Forward in Long-form Text
Mastodon is:
Matthew Tift has:
Finding an Ethical Path Through Social Media: Why I Choose Mastodon
PieFed has:
PieFed development update Apr 2025 – S3, OAuth, Federation retry queue, Stripe
NodeBB has:
NodeBB v4.3.0 — Remote Categories are a go!
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
WinBuzzer reports:
Bluesky’s Decentralized Network Faces Major Outage Caused by Centralized Servers
The Internet Review asks:
Where Does Bluesky Go from Here? What is the Bluesky of 2036?
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
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TurtleIs.land PDS is not an open signup Bluesky PDS. That said, it is easy to join and many are welcome. You will need to get an invite code to signup. To request an invite code, fill out the form below.
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Migrating to/from the TurtleIs.land PDS is not currently an option
Part of the great future promise of the Bluesky AT protocol is true and complete account portability including content. Accent on the word future. As you can see from Bluesky:
#Bluesky #ATprotocol #TurtleIsland #Native #Indigenous
https://turtleisland.blog/migrating-to-from-turtleis-land/
The @limeleaf@social.coop Podcast: Episode 04 is ready for your ear holes.
https://limeleaf.coop/podcast/episode-04/
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https://limeleaf.coop/podcast/episode-04/
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Claiming My Identity on Bluesky
Tired of handing your identity to platforms? I was too. Here’s why owning your identity matters, and how a simple DNS record makes it possible. #OwnYourIdentity #IndieWeb #BlueSky #DNS #DID
Bluesky’s Decentralized Network Faces Major Outage Caused by Centralized Servers
#Bluesky #Decentralization #SocialMedia #ATProtocol #Outage #PDS #TechNews
Destroying Autocracy – April 24, 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item(s)
The Guardian shares:
In her final piece for the Observer, Carole Cadwalladr reveals what happened when she returned last week to give the opening speech at technology conference Ted, where she gave her first – life-changing – talk six years ago.
TechDirt writes:
There’s a certain dark irony in watching tech billionaires who built their empires on the “democratizing power of technology” now actively working to dismantle democratic institutions. The same figures who once championed connection and openness are now the architects of the most dangerous centralization of power in modern history.
The “De” In “Decentralization” Stands For “Democracy”
The issues discussed in these two items are some of the main reasons Battalion and the TechnoAnarchist Manifesto exist.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
The Kyiv Independent reports:
Switzerland joins EU sanctions against Russian state media
Bleeping Computer reports:
Russian army targeted by new Android malware hidden in mapping app
TheNewStack reports:
EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop
The Register reports:
It takes one click to join Uber One, but quitting might need 32 actions
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people
Tech Policy reports:
Understanding the Apple and Meta Non-Compliance Decisions Under the Digital Markets Act
How AI Can Support Democracy Movements
A good article, though long. And Erica, search the term headings and learn how to use them!
EuroNews reports:
In his final months, Pope Francis warned about social media, screen time, and AI
NLNet shares:
Eleven new projects for NGI Pilots
CBS News reports:
Federal judge orders Trump administration to rehire all Voice of America and Radio Free Asia staff
Ars Technica reports:
Universities (finally) band together, fight “unprecedented government overreach”
Gaël Duval has:
Murena & /e/OS 2025: another leap towards Usable Privacy for All
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Propublica reports:
Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program
Krebs on Security reports:
Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
NiemanLab reports:
National Science Foundation cancels research grants related to misinformation and disinformation
The Center for Democracy and Technology reports:
Automated Tools for Social Media Monitoring Irrevocably Chill Millions of Noncitizens’ Expression
Pariah States
DarkReading reports:
Nation-State Threats Put SMBs in Their Sights
DeepSeek Breach Opens Floodgates to Dark Web
BleepingComputer reports:
Hackers abuse OAuth 2.0 workflows to hijack Microsoft 365 accounts
Lazarus hackers breach six companies in watering hole attacks
Big Media
404 Media reports:
How 404 Media Is Navigating ‘Economic Headwinds’
Or small media in this case. You should subscribe to 404 if you’re in the tech sector.
Big Tech
The Guardian reports:
Meta ‘hastily’ changed moderation policy with little regard to impact, says oversight board
Tech Policy reports on:
Big Tech, Bolsonarism, and the Erosion of Democracy
Where’s Your Ed opines:
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
Mozilla says:
Tell Etsy, Reddit, Tinder & Duolingo: Stop Feeding Surveillance Tech
Cybersecurity/Privacy
BleepingComputer has:
Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack
WordPress ad-fraud plugins generated 1.4 billion ad requests per day
The Register reports:
Ex-NSA chief warns AI devs: Don’t repeat infosec’s early-day screwups
Nextcloud says:
EU-US Data Privacy Framework is defunct: what does this mean for businesses?
CyberNews reports:
Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time
Ha! You reap what you sow.
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Tim Bray looks at:
Fedihost asks:
Why Is Mastodon Using So Much Storage?
Jose Murilo shares:
A rede social que não pode ser vendida: porque Mastodon, e não Bluesky.
TechCrunch reports:
Threads officially moves to Threads.com and updates its web app
So, block threads.com.
Meta’s Threads opens up ads to global advertisers
To the surprise of no one.
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
And:
Bluesky launches blue check verification
Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet
Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?
Because it’s not fucking decentralized.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
- That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.
- Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS.
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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If you use Bluesky, you may be interested in today’s news that now you can publish Surf feeds to Bluesky. 🦋
We’d love for you to test with us if you want! Here's more details:
Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?
On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour.
Despite the platform’s decentralized nature, the majority of Bluesky users today interact with the service via Bluesky’s official app, powered by the AT Protocol.
#socialmedia #bluesky #ATprotocol #outage #technology #tech
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/wait-how-did-a-decentralized-service-like-bluesky-go-down/
そもそも、分散化という意味では #BlueSky と #Mastodon :mastodon: を比べるんじゃなくて、 #BlueSky と #Fediverse :fediverse: をくらべるべきなのではという気もする。 #ATProtocol と #ActivityPub の比較といったほうが良いかも。
#Mastodon :mastodon: の半分が最もメジャーなサーバー以外のサーバーに分散しているということは、#Fediverse :fediverse: という単位でみたらもっと多くの割合が分散しているということになるはず :mastodon_mascot:
In this episode of the DotSocial podcast, recorded at the #FediverseHouse at SXSW, Bluesky CTO @pfrazee.com strapped on his butterfly wings to explain to @mike how the company is rethinking the internet’s architecture to create a more flexible, user-centric web.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/dot-social-paul-frazee-bluesky/
#DotSocial #Podcast #ATProtocol #Bluesky #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb
Exploring decentralized, post-blockchain financial transactions on ATProtocol. Built on DIDs, signed attestations, and mutual revocation - no tokens, no chains. Technical outline below. 🧵 #ATProtocol #atdev
Invoices, transactions, and pr...
Bluesky to Introduce Blue Check Verification System
#Bluesky #SocialMedia #Verification #ATProtocol #TechNews #BlueCheck
https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/19/bluesky-to-introduce-blue-check-verification-system-xcxwbn/
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