If we’re swapping out discord, please just go with Zulip… It’s FLOSS, and has a solid company backing it that actually cares about FLOSS (They even bought the product back, after it was sold to a company that was enshittifying it)/

Not really a hypothetical though. Its the very reason I kept a non-profit’s account on twitter, and facebook, and instagram, for as long as I did - Because we HAD to in order to effectively hit the mission for the non profit.

If I ran an org, that needed to reach a community of say… 1000 people in need, and 900 of those people were ONLY on twitter, guess what?

That org needs to be on twitter, even if President Musk is profiting from it. Otherwise, the org would be remiss in their mission.

Its that social inertia, and I get it.

I ran a neighborhood group’s social media, and even after FB turned openly shitty, I had to stay on there, because thats where people are.

I mean, I could have pushed the org to drop them, but then we would have lost the eyeballs of thousands of neighbor’s we’re trying to work FOR.

Same deal with Twitter, they’ve just gotten to the point where most NPOs lose less by leaving than they would by staying.

So, basically using Facebook technology in their AI app?

Yes.

POWs are not entitled to access to the criminal justice system.

That’s… Not true.

Trump’s strong arming sounds so 19th century though

20th century too! If a government didn’t do what we wanted them to do, we just couped their government, and installed a dictator.

I mean, how do you think Sadaam Hussein got into power?

He’s reviving the old-school capitalist imperialism.

It never went away…

However, there isn’t clear evidence that a Trump administration would be anti-privacy

Bruh… Seriously?

So, it’s just feels, then, that makes you think the idea is implicit, while never having been explicit, and even when people tell you it’s factually just not accurate?

The people who tend to feel this way, are also the ones who tend to blame climate change is caused by DEI…

Is it implicit? Or are you just searching for your strawman?

Because I’ve taken a similar course to one you listed, and it was never implicit…

Which college, and which classes?

Well, you also hear it from people who don’t want to admit the US has an issue with systemic white supremacy.

You mean how both China, and the US propagandize their citizens? Yeah, I’m fully aware of that already. All states will do it, as a system of control over the working class, in order to continue to exploit them.

I mean, if controlling the people wasn’t the goal, whats the purpose of the oppression of a state?

China…

https://www.cpiml.net/liberation/2020/08/chinas-concentration-camps-for-uyghurs-in-chinas-own-words

People of the US and China are both unsure of what to believe about the other, because both are so propagandized lol

Literal thought policing (“what you privately think”)

Your private thoughts, nobody cares about. He didn’t have a “private thought” exposed, he literally posted his thought publicly.

THATs the issue, and people can choose to disassociate with you, if you publicly ruminate how you’re going to work hand-in-hand with a fascist state.

judge Proton by its actions rather than the (utterly commonplace) opinions of one of its directors.

And, this is what we are doing. A CEO speaks for the organization, and telegraphs it’s actions. And his actions are gross.

If the org wants to fix this, they need to fire him. Because otherwise, his opinion is the opinion of the organization.

If you say anything positive about an American politician it means you will stan them for life and support all their actions unconventionally.

There is nothing positive about the GOP, Trump, or the American Reich Wing.

So, we just believe that Proton, being buddy-buddy with Trump, isn’t going to turn around, and stab us in the backs?

Call me “skeptical”.