Constant bombardment of ‘bad news’ can easily make individuals desensitised and disillusioned

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The wethepeople "Battleship Magnum" BMX Frame comes with some new features like the hydroformed top tube and down tube gussets, new shape dropouts for perfect hubguard/peg fit and a short rear for modern techical BMX street riding. The specialty of the wethepeople "Battleship Magnum" BMX Frame is a taller standover with 9.75" and the new hydroformed seat tube, which creates an optimal connection to the bottom bracket housing and also generates more stiffness in the area of the bottom bracket. Furthermore the wethepeople "Battleship Magnum" BMX Frame includes a integrated seat clamp, wider rear triangle for for a 2.5" tire and has now brake hardware holes (brakeless).

• Wheel Size: 20"
• Material: 100% 4130 Japanese CrMo, hydroformed top tube and down tube gussets, hydroformed seat tube, butted tubes, integrated headset, integrated seatclamp
• Geometry:
  Top Tube Length (TT): 20.75", 21.0" or 21.25"
  Chainstay Length (CS): 12.7" (32.26cm) - 13.25" (33.65cm)
  Head Tube Angle (HA): 75.5°
  Seat Tube Angle (SA): 71°
  Bottom Bracket Height: 11.7" (29.72cm)
  Standover Height (SO): 9.75" (24.77cm)
• Seat Clamp: integrated
• Seat Post Diameter: 25.4mm
• Bottom Bracket: Mid BB
• Dropouts: Laser Cut, 6mm thick, 14mm slots, new shape for perfect hubguard/peg fit
• Chain Tensioners: without
• Brake Type: without (brakeless)
• Brakemounts: without
• Brakemounts included with delivery: No
• Gyro compatible: No
• Features: wide rear end for fat 2.5" tires, hydroformed top and down tube for the strongest possible connection to the headtube, hydroformed seat tube for optimal connection to the bottom bracket shell, taller 127mm extended headtube for less spacers with an uncut fork
• Model Year: 2021

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From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Privacy: The liberties of our parents are not being inherited by our children – they are being lost wholesale in the transition to digital. Today, we’ll look at the importance of posting anonymous public messages.

When I was in my teens, before the Internet (yes, really), there was something called BBSes – Bulletin Board Systems. They were digital equivalents of an analog Bulletin Board, which in turn was a glorified sheet of wood intended for posting messages to the public. In a sense, they were an anonymous equivalent of today’s webforum software, but you connected from your home computer directly to the BBS over a phone line, without connecting to the Internet first.

The analog Bulletin Boards are still in existence, of course, but mostly used for concert promotions and the occasional fringe political or religious announcement.

In the early 1990s, weird laws were coming into effect worldwide as a result of lobbying from the copyright industry: the owners of bulletin board systems could be held liable for what other people posted on them. The only way to avoid liability was to take down the post within seven days. Such liability had no analog equivalent at all; it was an outright ridiculous idea that the owner of a piece of land should be held responsible for a poster put up on a tree on that land, or even that the owner of a public piece of cardboard could be sued for the posters other people had glued up on that board.

Let’s take that again: it is extremely weird from a legal standpoint that an electronic hosting provider is in any way, shape, or form liable for the contents hosted on their platform. It has no analog equivalent whatsoever.

Sure, people could put up illegal analog posters on an analog bulletin board. That would be an illegal act. When that happened, it was the problem of law enforcement, and never of the bulletin board owner. The thought is ridiculous and has no place in the digital landscape either.

The proper digital equivalent isn’t to require logging to hand over upload IPs to law enforcement, either. An analog bulletin board owner is under no obligation whatsoever to somehow identify the people using the bulletin board, or even monitor whether it’s being used at all.

The Analog Equivalent Privacy Right for an electronic post hosting provider is for an uploader to be responsible for everything they upload for the public to see, with no liability at all for the hosting provider under any circumstance, including no requirement to log upload data to help law enforcement find an uploader. Such monitoring is not a requirement in the analog world of our parents, nor is there an analog liability for anything posted, and there is no reason to have it otherwise in the digital world of our children just because somebody doesn’t know how to run a business otherwise.

As a side note, the United States would not exist had today’s hosting liability laws in place when it formed. A lot of writing was being circulated at the time arguing for breaking with the British Crown and forming an Independent Republic; from a criminal standpoint, this was inciting and abetting high treason. This writing was commonly nailed to trees and public posts, for the public to read and make up their own minds. Imagine for a moment if the landowners where such trees happened to stand had been charged with high treason for “hosting content” — the thought is as ridiculous in the analog would, as it really is in the digital too. We just need to pull the illusion aside, that the current laws on digital hosting make any kind of sense. These laws really are as ridiculous in the digital world of our children, as they would have been in the analog world of our parents.

Privacy remains your own responsibility.

Privacy: “Everything you say or do can and will be used against you, at any point in the far future when the context and agreeableness of what you said or did has changed dramatically.” With the analog surveillance of our parents, everything was caught in the context of its time. The digital surveillance of our children saves everything for later use against them.

It’s a reality for our digital children so horrible, that not even Nineteen Eighty-Four managed to think of it. In the analog surveillance world, where people are put under surveillance only after they’ve been identified as suspects of a crime, everything we said and did was transient. If Winston’s telescreen missed him doing something bad, then it had missed the moment and Winston was safe.

The analog surveillance was transient for two reasons: one, it was assumed that all surveillance was people watching other people, and two, that nobody would have the capacity of instantly finding keywords in the past twenty years of somebody’s conversations. In the analog world of our parents, that would mean somebody would need to actually listen to twenty years’ worth of tape recordings, which would in turn take sixty years (as we only work 8 out of 24 hours). In the digital world of our children, surveillance agencies type a few words to get automatic transcripts of the saved-forever surveillance-of-everybody up on screen in realtime as they type the keywords – not just from one person’s conversation, but from everybody’s. (This isn’t even exaggerating; this was reality in or about 2010 with the GCHQ-NSA XKEYSCORE program.)

In the world of our analog parents, surveillance was only a thing at the specific time it was active, which was when you were under individual and concrete suspicion of a specific, already-committed, and serious crime.

In the world of our digital children, surveillance can be retroactively activated for any reason or no reason, with the net effect that everybody is under surveillance for everything they have ever done or said.

We should tell people as it has become instead; “anything you say or do can be used against you, for any reason or no reason, at any point in the future”.

The current generation has utterly failed to preserve the presumption of innocence, as it applies to surveillance, in the shift from our analog parents to our digital children.

This subtle addition – that everything is recorded for later use against you – amplifies the horrors of the previous aspects of surveillance by orders of magnitude.

Consider somebody asking you where you were on the evening of March 13, 1992. You would, at best, have a vague idea of what you did that year. (“Let’s see… I remember my military service started on March 3 of that year… and the first week was a tough boot camp in freezing winter forest… so I was probably… back at barracks after the first week, having the first military theory class of something? Or maybe that date was a Saturday or Sunday, in which case I’d be on weekend leave?” That’s about the maximum precision your memory can produce for twenty-five years past.)

However, when confronted with hard data on what you did, the people confronting you will have an utter and complete upper hand, because you simply can’t refute it. “You were in this room and said these words, according to our data transcript. These other people were also in the same room. We have to assume what you said was communicated with the intention for them to hear. What do you have to say for yourself?”

It doesn’t have to be 25 years ago. A few months back would be sufficient for most memories to be not very detailed anymore.

To illustrate further: consider that the NSA is known to store copies even of all encrypted correspondence today, on the assumption that even if it’s not breakable today, it will probably be so in the future. Consider what you’re communicating encrypted today — in text, voice, or video — can be used against you in twenty years. You probably don’t even know half of it, because the window of acceptable behavior will have shifted in ways we cannot predict, as it always does. In the 1950s, it was completely socially acceptable to drop disparaging remarks about some minorities in society, which would socially ostracize you today. Other minorities are still okay to disparage, but might not be in the future.

When you’re listening to somebody talking from fifty years ago, they were talking in the context of their time, maybe even with the best of intentions by today’s standards. Yet, we could judge them harshly for their words interpreted by today’s context — today’s completely different context.

Our digital children will face exactly this scenario, because everything they do and say can and will be used against them, at any point in the future. It should not be this way. They should have every right to enjoy Analog Equivalent Privacy Rights.

Pirate Parties: This past weekend, elections were held in Luxembourg and the Czech Republic. The Pirate Party of Luxembourg tripled their support and entered the Luxembourg Parliament with two MPs, and in the Czech Republic, the Pirate Party increased their support further – now receiving a full 17% in Prague.

With 6.45% of the votes of the final tally, the Luxembourg Pirate Party is entering its national Parliament, being the fifth Pirate Party to enter a national or supranational legislature (after Sweden, Germany, Iceland, and the Czech Republic). This may not seem like much, but it is a very big deal, for reasons I’ll elaborate on later. A big congratulations to Sven Clement and Marc Goergen, new Members of Parliament for Luxembourg!

Further, the Czech Republic has had municipal elections, and the Czech Pirate Party showed a full 17.1% support in Prague, the Czech capital, making the Pirates the second biggest party with a very narrow gap to the first place (at 17.9%). This may or may not translate to votes for the Czech national legislature, but is nevertheless the highest score recorded so far for a Pirate Party election day. I understand the Czech Pirates have as many as 275 (two hundred and seventy-five!) newly-elected members of city councils, up from 21 (twenty-one). Well done, well done indeed!

For people in a winner-takes-all system, like the UK or United States, this may sound like a mediocre result. In those countries, there are usually only two parties, and the loser with 49% of the vote gets nothing. However, most of Europe have so-called proportional systems, where 5% of the nationwide votes gives you 5% of the national legislation seats. In these systems, the parties elected to Parliament negotiate between themselves to find a ruling majority coalition of 51%+ of the seats, trying to negotiate common positions between parties that are reasonably close to each other in policy. This usually requires a few weeks of intense negotiations between the elections and the presentation of a successfully negotiated majority coalition.

Further, it could reasonable be asked what kind of difference the Czech Republic or Luxembourg could possibly make on their own in the global information repression. The answer is, a whole lot. The key here is realizing that one country is sufficient to break the global repression of information; the repression is completely dependent on every single country keeping watertight doors. If one single country decides to allow the free movement of culture and knowledge, then all such distribution will immediately be based there. The copyright industry lobby in other countries will protest, quite loudly, but there’s not really anything they can do about it.

And since the problem from a policymaking standpoint has been that the industry-age era politicians consider the Internet-related policy areas completely peripheral in the first place, conceding those policy areas will be seen as very cheap price to bind those votes to a majority coalition.

“One country is sufficient to break the global repression of information.”

A relevant comparison is how Canada has now legalized cannabis at the country level, following many state-level initiatives here and there in the world, and at once, the floodgates are open. Not just for the illegal distribution networks, but more importantly, for legalization everywhere else. As a German politician dryly said today, “what’s possible in Canada is also possible in Germany”, proposing that cannabis should be legalized outright in Germany. I would imagine the tone is similar in most places — or, importantly, many enough places.

The Luxembourg and Prague coalition talks have just started, with an outcome typically expected in a few weeks.

BMX Instagram Compilation 2016 - Sven Avemaria

Here's a short Instagram compilation of clips we posted at our instagram account kunstformbmxshop about our bro Sven Avemarie from the last couple months. We hope you'll like it!

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BMX Instagram Compilation 2016 - Miguel Smajlji

Here's a short Instagram compilation of clips we posted at our instagram account kunstformbmxshop about our bro Miguel Smajlji from the last couple months. We hope you'll like it!

https://www.instagram.com/kunstformbmxshop/ https://www.instagram.com/smilesridesbikes/

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BMX Instagram Compilation 2016 - Robin Kachfi

Here's a short Instagram compilation of clips we posted at our instagram account kunstformbmxshop about our bro Robin Kachfi from the last couple months. We hope you'll like it!

https://www.instagram.com/kunstformbmxshop/ https://www.instagram.com/robinkachfibmx/

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Felix Prangenberg Wethepeople Endstate Part

Felix Prangenberg has produced a lot for his WTP "Endstate" part during his Cali trip, in which each clip is just sick! enjoy the video! Best regards, your kunstform BMX Shop

Video: Grant C.

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Robin Kachfi Best of Instagram 2017 VIDEO

Robin Kachfi edited his instagramclips from the past 8 months to a "Best of" Video , which you should not miss! Enjoy the video! Best regards, your kunstform BMX Shop

Video: Robin Kachfi

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Robin Kachfi - Radiobikes #Voyage Video 2017

Whether it's on his bike or behind the camera, Robin Kachfi always pushing limits, getting creative, and producing some of BMX's best work. Watch his new Radiobikes video here. You WILL NOT be disappointed! Enjoy the video , Your kunstform BMX Shop Team!

Video: Robin Kachfi

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Kunstform Pragfriedhof Pre-session Video 2017

On the 2nd of december 2017, our stock session took place again and it was absolutely amazing to met all the homies again. We had also run a BMX Flatland contest in our Stock room during the others went for a skatepark session to the Pragfriedhof, where you had the chance to win some vouchers for tricks. After the pre-session, the main contest started, in which different groups had the chance to show their skills on the different obstacles we had built up. Even though the ceiling was kissed many times, it was a great end to 2017. You'll find all photos and results on freedombmx. Thanks to everyone for coming down and for the amazing time! Hopefully see you next year, your kunstform BMX shop team!

Video: Robin Kachfi

Our team riders produced a lot instagram content in spring. You can check our Instagram team mix spring video now on the kunstform Youtube channel. New instagram team mix video will dropping soon!

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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Our best of instagram summer team mix video just went online. Watch the best instagram clips of Felix Prangenberg, Felix Donat, Miguel Smajli, Robin Kachfi, Artur Meister and many more.

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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Our bros Felix Prangenberg, Miguel Smajli, Robin Kachfi, Artur Meister and Felix Donat checked out the skateplaza during their trip to Riga, Latvia and filmed a quick Instagram Slam for Youtube, which you can check out right here!

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Video: David Schaller



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Bro Robin Kachfi put his favorite Instagram Clips to an Edit on his Youtube Channel together, which you can watch right here!

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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We got the new wethepeople "Message" 2019 BMX Frame in the colorway Galactic Purple, which has a great BMX Park geometrie and is euipped with a short stand over height of 8" and head tube angle of 75.5°. The wethepeople "Message" 2019 BMX Frame - Galactic Purple comes with a glitterpaint, is made of 4130 CrMo and comes as well with a strong rearend.


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Your kunstform BMX Shop Team

Our best of instagram summer team mix video just went online. Watch the best instagram clips of Felix Prangenberg, Felix Donat, Miguel Smajli, Robin Kachfi, Artur Meister and many more.

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Video: Robin Kachfi



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So, it's still springtime and as every year, it's time for the Instagram Spring 2019 Compilation. Of course, our entire team is shredding and there's lots of bangers in this which are absolutely worth seeing. You can watch the whole video here now.

Enjoy the video, your kunstform BMX Shop Team!

Video: Robin Kachfi

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When: Friday, November 1st 2019 (8 pm)
Where: Bar Deggendorf, Petersburgerstr. 74A, 10249 Berlin

Presented by: Kink & Traffic Distribution

On 01.11.2019 the premiere of the new Kink Champagne BMX video takes place in the bar Deggendorf! The new full-length team video will be released worldwide on DVD & Blu-Ray on November 2nd. Over 2 years of filming, over 20 cities in the US, Australia, Canada and Europe, video parts by kink drivers like Travis Hughes, Agus Gutierrez, Chad Osburn, Calvin Kosovich, Hobie Doan, Dan Coller and Nathan Williams are sure to be guaranteed BMX entertainment!



Feel free to join us!

All the best

Your kunstform BMX Shop Team

When: Friday, November 8th 2019 (8 pm)
Where: kunstform BMX Shop (Stockroom), Rotebühlstr. 63, 70178 Stuttgart

Presented by: Kink & Traffic Distribution

On 08.11.2019 the premiere of the new Kink Champagne BMX video takes place at kunstform BMX Shop Stuttgart! The new full-length team video will be released worldwide on DVD & Blu-Ray on November 2nd. Over 2 years of filming, over 20 cities in the US, Australia, Canada and Europe, video parts by kink drivers like Travis Hughes, Agus Gutierrez, Chad Osburn, Calvin Kosovich, Hobie Doan, Dan Coller and Nathan Williams are sure to be guaranteed BMX entertainment!



Feel free to join us!

All the best

Your kunstform BMX Shop Team

Yes, the wait is over! Just in time before Easter, the BMX bikes from Sunday Bikes have finally arrived again! Seriously one the of the best equipped, quality and style bikes on the market! Get them while they are still available!

Vans has released a new BMX slip-on together with professional BMX rider Courage Adams. The new shoe from Vans comes with a solid pedal feel thanks to the Wafflecup technology and offers optimal support when riding. On top of that, the elegant, black shoe with luxurious material and personalized design has an upper made of premium leather with an embossed elephant skin structure and the characteristic Elephant/Scale logo by Courage on the outsole is visible through the transparent rubber.

Yeah, Sunday 2022 BMX bikes finally arrived! The supply chains are still not working smoothly, so if a BMX bike appeals to you, we recommend that you get it as soon as possible, as we currently do not know exactly when to expect the next delivery. As well, the Vans Courage Adams Slip-On shoes and also the fall 2021 collection from Etnies X Doomed have finally reached us!

Vans, presents the Old Skool™ BMX by Vans athlete Courage Adams. Incorporating elevated materials and Courage’s custom artwork, the Old Skool™ BMX comes to life with a design inspired by Courage’s Nigerian roots, symbolizing balance and patience – principles at the core of his riding.