Former landed gentry

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • hoodatninja@kbin.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•If you don't mind me asking what is so important about privacy?
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    1 year ago

    There is no planet where you will convince me I need to present my state ID in order to browse the internet.

    I am very familiar with rumble. We have seen its type over and over again. The same thing happens every single time. Because of their “commitment to free-speech,“ law enforcement just hangs out and either pressures the admins, who are facing financial pressures from nobody wanting to fund a website that has that kind of content, reasonable people feel repulsed, or eventually the feds get involved because something criminal is happening or threatened. Ask Voat. Ask Gab. Ask Truth Social.

    Alex Jones did a lot more damage with YouTube and Twitter than he ever will on Rumble. These platforms will always pop up, but they are ineffectual in the long run. Ultimately, it’s about commandeering existing, massive channels. It’s about access to new people.

  • hoodatninja@kbin.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•If you don't mind me asking what is so important about privacy?
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    1 year ago

    I promise you that Google’s attempts to break AdGuard or the federal government’s begging Apple and co to create backdoors are not an attempt to stop domestic terrorism.

    The most effective thing you can do to reduce domestic terrorism in the US, which is usually stochastic in nature, is to deplatform the people riling these people up.

    Did you not notice how much quieter it was with Trump off of Twitter? When was the last time you heard anything about Alex Jones that wasn’t about his legal woes?