I guess the narrative is that the US (the most powerful country in the world) cannot compel El Salvador (the country they are paying) to release the prisoners they sent there.

In other news, up is down

I signed up for Proton prepaid a while ago and decided the best way to cancel payments was to simply use a masked card with a purchase limit on it. Big mistake. When my paid period ended and a second transaction failed to go through, Proton simply locked my account and all its emails until I prepaid again. I did so, and then I immediately canceled further payments.

Another?!

We all (sort of) have Mastodon accounts. At least it’s possible to @ people on those servers from here.

FWIW the person removing stuff on Reddit is also a FOSStodon moderator. This might be worth bringing up to the admins there.

It’s part of a broader trend that I’ve been recording and posting about. tl;dr it seems to be a blanket mandate that US institutions and billionaires are above criticism

• DHS allows surveillance based on sexual orientation. Reddit’s privacy moderators ban any mention of it
• r/privacy moderator censors criticism of CEO James Dolan
• r/privacy moderators blacklist German tech news site Heise, censor posts critical of DHS
• On Reddit’s r/privacy, you can no longer criticize Facebook

In part, because one of the fucking Reddit moderators is now also a FOSStodon moderator, and I think FOSStodon admins might appreciate seeing a pattern of bad behavior

Here are the sources for the DHS allowing surveillance of minorities:

• DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity: Advocate
• DHS Scraps Ban on Surveillance Based on Sexual Orientation: Bloomberg Government (paywall)
• Direct link to the field manual per one redditor

Carrotcypher is one of the moderators of the FOSStodon server… To keep this more related to privacy and not bad moderation, I’ve added more details here.

I’ve got a few posts you might find interesting, trying to establish evidence of a broader pattern before presenting it

r/privacy moderator censors criticism of CEO James Dolan

r/privacy moderators blacklist German tech news site Heise, censor posts critical of DHS

On Reddit’s r/privacy, you can no longer criticize Facebook (you already saw this one)

My only regret with making this post is I did not mention James Dolan specifically. Fuck him.

Maybe this was an Elon Musk requested feature

Despite the traction, Mohandas says the company doesn’t yet have any ambitions to seek out venture capital.

Despite the product not sucking, the founder says the company doesn’t have ambitions to make their product start sucking.

Sometimes I hate journalism

It’s unclear if they were already gathering this data but with no way to opt out.

Either way, it’s not great, but the lack of clarity is a little worrying

For some users, including myself, it was on by default.

Not sure if this means it’s a step forwards or a step backwards.

A data sucking capitalist corporation from an imperialist power, all of which you hate because you aren’t an orientalist hypocrite, I presume?

Right, but does that mean GPL-licensed apps are still getting removed left and right from the App Store, and/or that people are self-censoring?

I see VLC (back from the original contention) is still up, though MPL licensed on there (it appears to be GPL on their official website), and I don’t touch iOS devices nearly enough to recognize much else. It’s been fifteen years.

I found this helpful article about what the AGPL is, and how it can be really beneficial- with examples.

Can you provide a source about Apple not letting you distribute GPL licensed code? Or is that basically what this StackOverflow question mentions? I’m just trying to figure out whether Apple’s evil here is business as usual, or particularly pernicious.

tl;dr the article says that

1. People were downloading sketchy Chinese VPN apps
2. China compels companies to share data with the government

This research is interesting, but right about now, the average American citizen is in way more danger from the US than China.

Consider switching up your exclusive “China Bad” posting a little. These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.

I’d never looked into Cyd before, but it sounds brilliant - a platform to not just delete your tweets but also preserve them in case there’s anything worth preserving. I’ve wanted something similar for Reddit for a little while now.