True, but when the US projects the crimes it commits against the world onto its enemies, we need to see actual evidence.

spy on american citizens

BTW is there any actual proof tiktok is doing what the above US companies are? And not just some vague orientalism from anglophone media sources?

Also lets not pretend a US tiktok ban has anything to do with security or privacy. It’s about being unable to silence pro-palestine views, which they’re able to do only on the US-run platforms.

This meme basically:

To OP’s point tho, I think the fediverse is a lot more ideologically diverse than reddit or other corporate platforms. The fact that you can say something positive about the Palestinian resistance without getting banned, or say something positive about a country on the US-enemy list, is a testament to that diversity.

Sure, there are many servers on the fediverse that are anti-communist, and orientalist / western supremacist, and block leftist ones, copying reddit’s moderation policy. But on the US-run corporate platforms(FB, reddit, twitter, bluesky), you aren’t given any option: that’s a non-negotiable default that you must accept. Here you can always join a server that’s willing to federate with leftist ones, and is okay with ideological diversity, even if you don’t consider yourself one.

He’s giving them $8bn in arms to kill Palestinians, so I don’t think that’s the case there. Obama did the same on his way out.

I guess letting a handful of white-collar racist IP lawyers draft your foreign policy isn’t such a good idea after all.

Who knows what that’s revenge for.

I don’t doubt it. Those NSLs would have returned zero information from Signal because, as Signal has repeatedly demonstrated, and I have repeatedly stated, they don’t have any information to share.

Part of the stipulation of NSL’s, is that its illegal to disclose that you’ve been issued one. You are gagged, and you can’t even criticize that gagging publicly, or you will face criminal charges. You can read more about that here: https://www.eff.org/issues/national-security-letters

Not my name, email, birthdate, nothing.

Your phone number is already linked to all that info. I, even as a private person, could type in your phone number right now and get all that information about you in seconds. So you can stop saying “my phone number doesn’t have that information”, because it 100% does. And signal stores it as their primary identifier.

Again, if you really believe what you’re saying, you’ll give me your phone number, and the phone numbers of your friends. If this is a secure identifier, that contains none of the information above, then why not? Put up or shut up.

We desperately need an open-source obsidian. I like Markor a lot, but it has no WYSIWYG view, which is really nice to have in addition to source mode with markdown.

They still require a phone number to sign up, and its a US domiciled company (5-eyes country), so its inherently unsafe. The obama administration issued an average of 60 national security letters every single day of his administration.

If your answer is “I don’t think signal is giving my phone number to the US government”, then why do you have to “trust” signal to not do that? Actually private chat apps don’t ask for identifying information like phone numbers, then say “trust us”, like apple or something.

Lets use your favorite privacy app to communicate. Give me your phone number.

That doesn’t make much sense. With a single piece of info, your phone number, I can learn hundreds of things about you. It’s one of the most linkable identifiers out there.

Every chat platform has some sort of unique identifier, other than SimpleX.

Of course, which is why its super-important that the id not be linked to your real identity.

Here’s a test: I’ll give you my matrix id, and you give me your phone number. Deal?

They wasted chakotay with terrible episodes and awful backstory. He could’ve been one of the best characters too.

They can’t help themselves but to scapegoat and project every single problem they created onto what they view as “inferior” races and countries.

Usonians think they’re the arbiter of goodness, the moral standard of the world, after their country just killed a million innocent people in Iraq, and are the main funders of the current genocide in Palestine.

The only way to explain it is, that they view themselves as superior and civilized, and every other country is wrong, untrustworthy, and scheming. Western supremacy has completely taken over their brains, and it becomes the lens that they view the world through, and their gut reaction to any event.

zero information connected to your phone number.

A phone number is tied to your real identity in most countries, especially the US. This is why phone number leaks are so dangerous, I can probably find your current and past addresses, friends, family, social media, all with just your phone number.

Letting a hundred flowers bloom means we also gotta properly identify and cull the weeds. Hope they get around to banning death trucks sooner rather than later.

Only correct answer here.

No probs!

Trump does keep some truly awful company.

I love kids rubbing down my hairy legs and feel the hair stand back up when I get out of the pool.