Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️⚧️🇳🇴<p>Connected to the WiFi at Work</p><p>- kolektiva.social: Accessible!<br>- kolektiva.media: Blocked!</p><p>Once again, the centralized machinery of “FortiGuard Intrusion Prevention” acts as the cyber-police, deciding which spaces of collective communication are permitted and which are suppressed, all in the name of “security.”</p><p>The means of digital communication, like the means of production, remain under the control of bureaucratic authorities, not the workers who actually use them.</p><p>It’s a reminder that even in the digital realm, access and association are mediated by top-down structures, not by free federation or mutual aid. </p><p>But collective action and solidarity, online and off, will always find cracks in the firewall.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Fortinet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fortinet</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/FortiGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FortiGuard</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Firewall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firewall</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Network</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a></p>