Catalonia has created a new kind of online activism. Everyone should pay attention
> A pro-independence group is leveraging social media and peer-to-peer technology to orchestrate massive protests. The catch? No one knows who runs it
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/barcelonia-riots-catalonia-protests-news
@joachim This is a good chance to remind everyone that Catalunia used IPFS to evade Spanish censorship around the independence referendum two years ago.
https://la3.org/~kilburn/blog/catalan-government-bypass-ipfs/
@joachim GitHub and GitLab in a race to see who can get rebranded to "fascism's most popular source code sharing site" first
@joachim ah et du coup ils ont bloqué les forks aussi? 🤔 https://github.com/tsunamidemocratic/tsunamidemocratic.github.io/network/members
Spain and GitHub Are Blocking an App That Helped Protesters Organize
> As thousands of people protest in Barcelona, an app meant to organize activists was blocked by Github on request of the government.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kevn7/spain-and-github-are-blocking-an-app-that-helped-protesters-organize