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Lockdown Skeptics

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offsite link Not Your Typical Green Activism Group ? New ?Democratic? Collective Attempts to Redefine ?the People... Sun Apr 02, 2023 13:07 | Ian Macleod
A small eco group claiming partnerships with the WWF, RSPB, Save Our Wild Isles Project and National Trust employs decidedly Soviet lingo to make sweeping "calls for action" involving vast government intervention.
The post Not Your Typical Green Activism Group – New “Democratic” Collective Attempts to Redefine “the People” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Days After Posie Parker Mobbing Downunder, More Violence Erupts at Canadian Trans Protest Sun Apr 02, 2023 11:03 | Ian Macleod
Trans activists are exposing a violent side. Last week it was in New Zealand at a Posie Parker event. This time a mob turned violent in Canada, attacking a lone opposition protester. The videos are on Twitter.
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offsite link Expansion of Equality Act Will Mean Employees Can Sue Bosses if Customers Offend Them Sun Apr 02, 2023 09:00 | Toby Young
So much for Rishi Sunak's 'war on woke'. Tory backbenchers are waking up to the fact that the Worker Protection Bill, which the Government is supporting, would massively extend the scope of the Equality Act.
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offsite link Why Legislators Should Reject the WHO?s Pandemic Treaty Sun Apr 02, 2023 07:00 | Dr David Bell and Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh
The WHO's proposed pandemic treaty poses a direct threat to the national sovereignty of its signatories, transferring power from elected representatives to the WHO's Director General during a health 'emergency'.
The post Why Legislators Should Reject the WHO?s Pandemic Treaty appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Apr 02, 2023 01:11 | Ian Macleod
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the virus and the vaccines, the ?climate emergency? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Free Software Alternatives to Big Tech that you should use

This page lists some free software alternatives to some common proprietary software. Indymedia is based on free software and we likewise encourage people to embrace its use as much as possible.

By using commercial software and by using corporate owned sites run by Facebook, Google and others you are empowering them and disempowering yourself. People should use software and platforms that are independent of this corporate giants and their control and take back control yourself. It can be done

There is also a comprehensive list at this site: https://goodreports.com/>

See also the TechTonic podcast charting the spread of Big Tech into all areas of live and it's intrusions and surveillance.
https://techtonic.fm/

Browser:

Media Tools:

Webserver:

Website development:

  • Perl language - www.perl.org
  • PHP scripting language - http://www.php.net
  • MySql database - www.mysql.com

Web Content Management Systems

  • Oscailt (designed for Indymedia sites -runs this site) http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt
  • Drupal - www.drupal.org
  • Wordpress -Blog and Publishing Platform - www.wordpress.org

Text Editor:

Image Editor:

Email Service

Instead of Gmail

Email Client:

Instant Messaging / Chat:

Apps & Messaging:

Alternative to Google & Bing Maps

Alternative to Google Search

Secure Operating System

  • https://tails.boum.org/ -Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity.

Alternative to YouTube

Social Media Alternatives

Instead of Twitter or Facebook, use Minds, Gab, Pleroma or Mastodon:
Centralized:
Decentralized (Federated):

Alternative to Zoom


VoiceCalls / Voice over IP:

  • Ekiga www.ekiga.org
  • Twinkle is a SIP softphone for linux only. http://www.twinklephone.com
  • Jitsi - Open Source Video Calls and Chat http://www.jitsi.org/

Alternative to Instagram

Whiteboard interworking:

Alternative to Wikipedia


For a comprehensive list of free software, visit the Free Software Foundation Website and go to the page: http://directory.fsf.org/
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