• cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 months ago

      With your mother I suppose

      Honestly, how is this political crap of who supports who has anything to do with this?

      People should throw this “this person is x supporter so hes bad” out of the window

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        Everything is politics. We are political and social animals. We should definitely cast aside people for their affiliation. ESPECIALLY when talking about privacy and personal rights.

        This comment is so wrong in so many ways.

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          Humans are complicated, there may be someone who genuinely wants to change the nation for the better, then come home and use their wife and children as a punching bag. Would you like them? No. Would you vote for them? Maby, not because you want them but they seem to want to change something in the positive direction.

          I am not telling this Krasnov fellow beats his wife, but you get the point, people can be bad and still supported

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            No WHAT THE FUCK no. You would vote for someone who does something like beating his wife as long as he’s pushing your idea?!

            Jesus Christ stay away from me.

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      Proton has a very shady past (mostly in the mail server area, their initial business, easy to search for details as they all were reported reasonably well). I always try to get people to pick literally any of the other alternatives, and it’s also why I went with mailbox for my own mail when leaving Google.

      Being in Switzerland means they are also not in the EU and not subject to many of the customer protections you would get if they were.

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        7 months ago

        You sound like someone talking before thinking, all while having no clue at all.

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          A relatively recent example, basically just one of the first search results.

          Then there was the CEO endorsing Trump, or his politics, or one of the controversial nominees. It’s been a while so I don’t remember the exact specifics, but at the very least it caused quite a stir and caused backpedaling by the company (and the fact that it was from his personal x-account, not from the company).

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            If you operate in a country, you have to abide by the laws of it. Swiss laws are quite good if not the best ones, when it comes to privacy topics. This, however, does not protect you from criminal investigators fighting crime. And things like observing individuals is not done lightly, and needs the approval from courts.

            So it you are a criminal and think you can break laws and just hide by using encrypted services, well, think again.

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              Yes sure, completely ignore the 2nd point and focus on the example I even said was literally just the first search results.

              Also to be clear, in not against using them or even recommending them, but I think there are better alternatives out there, and people seem to just default to recommending proton. Then again who knows, maybe it’s good that we got a de-facto default recommendation/alternative to the big-tech offerings.

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                Oh, I should focus on the point, where even you said you have no idea what exactly happened. Proton yadda yadda Trump yadda yadda bad.

                I’ll just leave this here to give some context. Enjoy.

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      I dont think Trump passed bad surveillance laws in the US. The worst of those are from Bush and Obama.

      Trump inherited a mass surveillance apparatus. He didn’t build it.

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        I’ve seen similar sentiment shared by people that follow privacy topics. It’s a bad take and you are minimizing the significance of the surveillance state being built.

        There is a difference between ‘anyone’ can be watched and ‘everyone’ can be watched.

        There is a difference between implementing laws that could be used to monitor anyone and implementing systems that will be able to monitor everyone very cheaply and easily.

        This is not the same as the patriot Act https://www.businessinsider.com/ice-palantir-new-technology-30-million-visa-overstays-self-deportation-2025-4

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          US has contracted out to Palentier for years. This isnt new.

          I guess you’re new here, but we learned over 10 years ago that the NSA had a goal of targeting literally everyone.

          What’s new is that the power is shifting from groups like the FBI and NSA to ICE.

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        Just the other day there was a news about how Russia was basically given free access to US citizens data through Starlink. They don’t need to pass laws, they just ignore them.

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          Isn’t Russia known for censorship in surveillance?

          The US is better than Russia and the US isn’t exactly setting a high bar

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          Just going on whats in the article

          “This revision attempts to implement something that has been deemed illegal in the EU and the United States. The only country in Europe with a roughly equivalent law is Russia,” said Yen

          “I think we would have no choice but to leave Switzerland,” said Yen. “The law would become almost identical to the one in force today in Russia. It’s an untenable situation. We would be less confidential as a company in Switzerland than Google, based in the United States. So it’s impossible for our business model.”