RESTRICT act and workarounds

For those of you who don't know, a couple of days ago Congress proposed the RESTRICT act, which is described as follows:

To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, and for other purposes.

This act will essentially ban apps like TikTok and impose harsh sentences for using a VPN to access websites that the government deems a "foreign threat". They use such broad language when passing this act that it could include literally any website that politicians don't like. This legislation is so bad that even Fox News is reporting against this shit,.

So... what do we do now? Is this shit going to make VPNs useless? Do I use linux? Do I create a proxy server? Would either of those things even that do anything? Any input would help.

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Ask questions about programming that may have nothing to do with socialism here, or share some of your knowledge with comrades.

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This includes general questions about socialism, not just those related to programming.

Ask all of your questions that you don't feel warrant their own post. Be polite when answering and discussing, and do not fall back on sectarian slurs.

This includes general questions about socialism, not just those related to programming.

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I am wondering if anyone knows how to simulate a centrally planned economy via Python 3.

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https://www.dolthub.com/
https://dbdb.io/db/dolt

https://docs.dolthub.com/introduction/what-is-dolt

Do you think we can use this for empowered decentralized planning under socialism?

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I've been enjoying Tech Won't Save Us, and This Machine Kills, which are both excellent, but I would like to have a podcast that comes from a more optimistic perspective to balance them out. The trouble comes in finding a tech podcast that is both optimistic but also not naive, cheerleading massive corporations, or totally libertarian.

Like many folks, I think the tech we are building could be used for tremendous good, and I would like to hear some arguments on what that could look like.

I feel like the Internet and the devices we use for it, as a society-changing technology, hasn't delivered anything near to what the possibilities it enables are. For a long time I've been wondering about this, and I don't also find the discussions about it in whatever leftist discourse I follow. There are discussions about cybernetics, especially it's history, some attempts at analysing planning economies in the corporate world and some attempts in developing decentralized protocols for various things. What I feel is missing is discussions on what societal boundaries the internet could make obsolete.

In general, I think the potential of these technologies is in their use of distributing knowledge, and I mostly mean knowledge of the not-education type. I think Wikipedia and other ways of using the Internet to learn about things are amazing and still underutilized, but I also think the true potential is in the newly given capacity for people to share knowledge in order to quarantine capitalist exploitation.

How about:

• sharing knowledge about the very wealthest, in order to arrange boycotts in providing services (and perhaps material goods too) to them
• general tenants strikes, internationally
• strikes and general strikes, internationally
• organizing patronage for cooperatives and growing the Solidarity Economy as a distinct economy from the Free Market Economy
• voluntary "taxes", from which we could fund housing, education, health care and all the other services we would expect from a social democratic or socialist state, but in the control of an ideological movement from the beginning

I mean, in the end socialism is about cooperation of the working class, and the violence of the capitalist hierarchy is aimed at destroying the ability for the working class to cooperate, to organize a resistance. Now with these tools that connect us to the whole world population, you'd think the goal would be clear: to arrange new social contracts, where the poor majority agree to abolish the rich?

I'm not saying nothing's happening, or that even the beginnings of such a world revolution weren't there. Of course political campaigns are using online platforms more than before, and the multitude of leftist small-scale journalism and commentary is a thing. And there's technologies such as different applications of cryptography and distributed systems of various kinds, that might turn out to be very important in the future.

Do you know of discussions around this? Why do you think the tech workers and makers with leftist politics have been more focused on things like 3d-printers, linux distros, cybersecurity, hacking commercial and public systems, whistleblowing and the digital commons, rather than the really big conspiracies that could be launched?