The Problem With Boomer Lawmakers!

MOFO Linux has existed, in its various forms, for almost 13 years. I created it because I took a job in a country with very restricted internet and I wanted uncensored access to news and social media. I had no intention of allowing anyone to interfere with ties I had to people anywhere else in the world or to tell me what to think. The system worked and I shared it with my colleagues. Realizing that it was something a lot of people would use, I made MOFO Linux available via SourceForge and various bit torrent trackers.

Now my home country is going through a wave of autocracy and moral panics. Lawmakers in several states are trying to erase history they don't like, attack school curricula, interfere with women's health care, and invade the privacy of their residents. Legislators at the national level are similarly embracing autocracy and censorship. They are all incredibly short sighted and poorly written, with no apparent input from experts. Essentially, dumbass BOOMER legislators threw together some red meat to please their donors and voters. The laws are performative, without respect for the Constitution or ICCPR. We, the people, did not ask for them. Examples are:

The RESTRICT act
Texas Bill HB2690

I never imagined that MOFO Linux would be a weapon to nullify censorship at home, but the situation is what it is. There are severe penalties for persons who help others evade restrictions and access blocked sites. Tell me, what else is new? I will tell you this: the fight is the same as anywhere else.

** MOFO Linux does not compromise, ever.
MOFO Linux takes no prisoners, ever.
Every censorship barrier is permeable.
Find the little holes and bore them as desired.
Until autocrats grow balls to cut the cables.**

If you have ever wondered why I always make sure that MOFO Linux is well seeded on the bit torrent networks, the reason is to make sure that it can never be deleted from the world, as long as there is a world. Nobody can force be to delete it, as I push each release out there, beyond my reach. Because information wants to be free and truth will eventually win.

[Brightflash64]

If any of you critics out there want to argue, "this isn't about you - why get involved?" I reply that "It is about someone and the least of any people is enough. FWIW, sometimes it is about me.