There are interesting things to say about this schism but this is just another pearl-clutching polemic and an intellectually dishonest one with all the usual clichés. They aren’t real feminists. They are political and we are not. The queers are coming for your children. They are destroying the foundations of Western liberal intellectual culture. They don’t understand poststructuralism and they don’t know what they are talking about because it doesn’t make sense. They are mean and nasty and privileged and insecure and we are poor and innocent and authentic. And in peak irony, they are the ones cynically seeking to transgress for attention while we are committed to academic integrity and ‘genuine insight’.
Surprised to see such tabloid level discourse posted here
I think ive been following the dev chat long enough to answer that the new freenet is a new, seperate network to the original (now called hyphanet I think) that handles transport by itself, and end to end encryption is not in scope of the project but can be built on top
however fundamental this might seem, consider how the technologies that structure our society are actively producing certain kinds of people. Nobody comes into this world seeking out low effort parasocial relationships to overdetermine their personalities. there’s something oppressive about suburban life and full time work that, for heaps of people, makes that feel like the best way to spend your downtime
agreed that the discussion about how you measure or even define social stability is probably what's really at stake in this discussion. Policing and the concept of criminality provide a kind of 'stability' in the form of social control to governments. On the other hand, those same forces can be incredibly destabilising to the social lives of everyone who is criminalised, their families and friends, especially given that criminalisation for so many people is often a death sentence.
The other thing I'd like to just bring up is that the either/or between criminalising/not criminalising drugs can sometimes miss that there are many creative, diverse and humanising responses to problematic drug use that don't depend on control via the threat of punishment