📓 20230526T035516--websites__consent_web_websites.org by @oceane

Websites are the best way to bypass someone's consent. They let the webmaster decide how you access to information and run arbitrary code in your browser, which is coincidentally how GDPR popups are run. Disable Javascript (e.g. in the Tor browser) to get rid of them!

By letting the webmaster decide how you access to information, they subordinate your communication to the acceptation of an interface. These interfaces necessarily brings affordances which may be dispositives of power[cite:@foucault_surveiller_1975].

By letting you access to information through any arbitrary interface you want or by constraining pages to a language that's restrictive enough, the smolnet and ActivityPub are definitely safer and more consensual. For example acting poorly on ActivityPub will lead to consequnences such as your ban or your instance being defederated, so we can consider the Fediverse as an associative social network, based on free association, with consent baked in (while this notion is absent from orwellian “socio-capitalistic” networks).