Decentralise your tech to avoid surveillance — Gabriel Custodiet
Pushing back against mass surveillance means decentralising everything and watching the watchmen. Do you want the authorities to know everything about you?
Gabriel Custodiet is an author and podcaster who unpacks the relationship between privacy, decentralisation, and utopian surveillance goals throughout history. Our conversation is loosely based on his book The Watchman Guide To Privacy.
Chasing privacy tends to lead to more surveillance by governments and corporations.
In his conversation with me, Gabriel chatted about the current technocratic war impacting our freedoms and entire way of life, but added that black-pill culture leads to nihilism and inaction.
So it’s important to do something rather than just doom-scroll and moan all the time.
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We’re constantly bombarded with fake news, propaganda, agendas, and outright lies.
It’s an information war.
What is true?
I don’t know either—but I’m trying to find out.
I haven't used Google for years. In fact, I also haven't used DuckDuckGo, Brave, Yandex, Bing, and most others for years. So what do I use, and why? For the purposes of clickbait, I won't reveal that in this snippet, so you will have to read below.
Sir Francis Bacon is often hailed as the "father of modern science", but Robert Frederick argues that he was, in fact, the father of a scientific cult. Moreover, William Shakespeare was a hoax. Well, he existed, but he didn't write any of the plays.
