I wonder where they got that idea from

We care so much about your children!

*Profits by monetizing children data, even though people under 13 aren’t allowed on their platform by their own terms of service.

Basically everything outside fdroid is riddled with trackers and ads so no, thanks

2d minecraft ftw

So basically, they are fined nothing (100k is less than a millionth of Meta’s net worth)

You mean things like the Intel Management Engine? I think they are partially disabled, like in librebooted ThinkPads.

The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them).

Purism, System76 and, more recently, Framework

If you don’t want to use Signal, use a forked version of it - Session (doesn’t require a phone number, only has a code number as id) or SimpleX Chat (not even a code number, completely private)

Every country has survaillance, US just makes the most noise with laws being passed. It’s the principle that matters - once other countries see that a certain law allows them to monitor people more closely, they’ll want to pass their version of that law. Australia is basically a Police State, UK also has very privacy-invasive laws.

You didn’t say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - “think of the children”. There’s a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn’t normal and should not be normalised.

not a drug connoisseur.

wants all drugs banned because “drugs > bad”

drugs are much more complex than “doing them is bad” and banning encrypted messanging apps and implementing surveillance does very little in terms of capturing pedos, while people who use them for legitamate reasons are screwed over

“bUt ThiNk oF thE cHildrEn!!1!1” is not an excuse for surveillance

Same: