Kannan @kannan@aana.site
"Fairness, Justice, and Freedom are more than words; they are perspectives"
Joined Oct 2018
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Shaheen Bagh is like pilgrimage site for pro democracy people. Groups coming in from all directions chanting slogans, having talks at main stage, thousands spread across the road, people showing their creativity in diverse ways, standing around campfire in the cold winter night of Delhi and most of us were women. For sometime, I felt like I was at the greatest place on earth.
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What are we planning to do after this? Even if we succeed?
Should we continue trusting the current political system that allowed this to happen? Or should we get out and be part of creating a new culture of politics?
Passive participation in politics is proved not working, we need active participation. We need to do more than voting every once a while.
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Today is the 33rd birthday of #aaronswartz, he fought to free #knowledge and killed by flawed unjust system that valued money over humanity. Let's remember him, and continue the battle he has started #knowledgefreedom #creativecommons
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ഡെബിയനുൾപ്പെടെ എല്ലാ സ്വതന്ത്ര സോഫ്റ്റ്വെയറും കാടും കടലും ശുദ്ധവായുവും പോലെ എല്ലാ മനുഷ്യരുടേയും പൊതുവായ സ്വത്താണു്.
നമ്മൾ ഇത് മെച്ചപ്പെടുത്തുമ്പോൾ എല്ലാവർക്കും ഉപകാരപ്പെടും. ---പൈററ്റ് പ്രവീൺ
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(2/3) Likes of Shri Goswami get special treatment while ordinary Indians are made to suffer , including Imprisonment, which are many times illegal and unauthorised".
- Advocate Dushyant Dave
(1/3) "While thousands of Citizens remain in jails languishing for long periods while their matters filed before the Honble Supreme Court are not getting listed for weeks and months, it is, to say the least, deeply disturbing as to how and why every time Mr Goswami approaches the Supreme Court, his matter gets listed instantly.
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People, everyone needs to read the whole parent thread. This is important.
Copyright is encroaching on everything from right-to-repair do the right to communicate freely; #youtubedl situation is just the latest of a long string of abuses.
We need to reform copyright.
I think we live in a weird mix Orwell's and Huxley's dystopias. Censored and distracted at same time.
This not only questions ministry's attempt to blindly promote Ayurveda, it also explains what scientific methods are and how modern medicines should work.
You can have dissent, but only on designated subjects.
With love,
SC
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Thought yesterday was the most depressing day for India as a democracy, today proved me wrong.
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RT @sruthisagar@twitter.com
High Court said family should not be coerced in any manner. Mobiles removed, village locked down, media blocked, brother had to escape to speak to media.
Mere tweets led to contempt case and conviction only recently. Wonder what the courts should do for this. #HarthasHorror
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sruthisagar/status/1312099900172066816
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RT @free_thinker@twitter.com
Will @Uppolice@twitter.com act against @amitmalviya@twitter.com? Will the courts take suo-moto congnisance of what the BJP IT Cell head has done?
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1312099438261747714
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A mentoring programme created with the intention of bringing more people to Free Software with strong focus on philosophy. More at https://camp.fsf.org.in/ #fscamp #FreeSoftware
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Indian main stream media is so clever, they successfully deviated people by sensationizaling single Case 24/7.
What they avoided
- Discussion/Analysis on CoVID cases and Death toll. 70, 000 + cases perday.
- Discussion on Govt move to privatize 23+ Govt PSUs including LIC, ONGC, BPL, HPCL, Govt Airports, IRCTC.
- Environmental bill, National Health Data collection bill, Internet Data protection bill and other bills on bench or passed during CoVID.
- Severe floods in Northeastern parts.
- Social Health and education system in the wake of CoVID.
- Migrant and job Retrenchment crisis.
And what not?
What they avoided
- Discussion/Analysis on CoVID cases and Death toll. 70, 000 + cases perday.
- Discussion on Govt move to privatize 23+ Govt PSUs including LIC, ONGC, BPL, HPCL, Govt Airports, IRCTC.
- Environmental bill, National Health Data collection bill, Internet Data protection bill and other bills on bench or passed during CoVID.
- Severe floods in Northeastern parts.
- Social Health and education system in the wake of CoVID.
- Migrant and job Retrenchment crisis.
And what not?
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“Final Report On 2020 Presidential Elections In #Belarus” was released.
A joint effort of the Voice, Zubr and Honest People platforms helped to collect and process official voting records from 1,310 out of 5,767 polling places.
The report is based on the comparison of data extracted from these 1,310 official polling places’ records with photographed ballots submitted by voters to the Voice platform.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WnyAfVKDhZOQxxDd2tdi5xcH3eiOng0V/view
Short deadlines and ignored public consultations, done at times where public protests are not possible. Its not hard to see center want to bypass discussions on it.
Health data management policy deals with extremely sensitive data of people. This is not an empire for King's masterstrokes. Such policies should go through publicly scrutiny and people should have their right to protest for what they feel right. This is EIA all over again.
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[Breaking] SC Sentences Prashant Bhushan To A Fine Of Rupees One In The Contempt Case Over His Two Tweets https://www.livelaw.in/top-stories/breaking-sc-sentences-prashant-bhushan-to-a-fine-of-rupees-one-in-the-contempt-case-over-his-two-tweets-162190#.X0yjh4l5bP4.twitter
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"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
— Edward Snowden
Similarly, the argument that you don't care about software freedom because you don't know coding can be considered as same. It's like arguing that you don't care about the food you eat because you don't know cooking!
Are we already conditioned to accept these plain sight display of oppression by state?
https://m.thewire.in/article/government/delhi-police-riots-amit-shah-mha
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Due to recent events, I read so much wrong things about #Fedilab
- No, Fedilab was a paid app before the gab matter. The goal was to move people to F-Droid (Fedilab got more than 50k active users at this time)
- No, I didn't remove the free version, it was taken down by Google due to donation links.
- Yes, in-app login block is useless. That will never prevent your account to see messages from instances that you don't want to see.
And yes, the app has all tools to build your safe place.
"A chopped head is cheaper than a chopped tree"
- Amrita Devi Bishnoi
An act passive resistance by by Bishnoi community, the sacrifice of 363 souls and the bravery of thousands more to protect their belief and the Kejri trees they hugged while being chopped down by kings soldiers.
"Fairness, Justice, and Freedom are more than words; they are perspectives"
Joined Oct 2018
