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Rubio uses terrorism law to ban secure email service (reason.com)

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[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

pls make 🗃️s 1st.

The U.S. State Department and U.S. Treasury placed the anarchist-aligned Italian tech support collective Autistici/Inventati on the "specially designated global terrorist" list on Wednesday. This designation makes it illegal for Americans to engage in any "transactions" with Autistici/Inventati
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Autistici/Inventati offers free email accounts, web hosting, videoconferencing, and other communications services on request to those who can demonstrate need and "share our principles of anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, and anti-militarism." Unlike commercial email providers, Autistici/Inventati stores only the bare minimum of user data and doesn't peek into users' inboxes, making it appealing to "paranoids," as the group describes itself.

Now I know which service to sign up to!

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't be stupid. If you are an American be very careful. This has the possibility to connect you to "terrorists" and give the government enough to go after you. Who knows for sure but be careful out there folks.

[–] atmothin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago

im not saying theres no risk but they are going after the infrastructure not people using it (which they use as excuse), it looks like setting stage for weaponizing this law when elections come and people organize peaceful protests against the government

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Please take a look at my bio b4 u respond.
I am not fond of Nazis.
⅔ of the planet is antifascists. So if you think using a privacy respecting service is “terrorism,” I suggests you cease interactions with me.
I have insecure 📧 to send. So buzz off if otherwise.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like you either have a chip on your shoulder or cant read well, but i am saying the government, not i, will call you a terrorist and use that to target you.

But sure, rage against allies. Whatever.

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 3 points 21 hours ago

The government called its civilians terrorists 50 years ago. Keep up boomer. You’ve been a naughty terrorist before you were born.

[+] bedwyr@piefed.ca -7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds to me like this company would be susceptible to a group talking trash about you to get them to cancel you, even if it's not true.

These types of left political type companies can't be trusted unfortunately. They are picked on and over correct for it on their users for start, for another, the left are fucking sheep being played like a fiddle by the oligarchs at this moment in time.

They would character assassinate you if you pissed off someone like Israel, and this company would take the word of the proxies talking shit, I strongly presume.

[–] Kyre@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

I love it when people are honest about being enormous pieces of shit. Thanks for making it easy to trim the blatant trolls from my feed. Going through your post history, I find it hard to believe people this dumb really exist in the world so I choose to believe you are either 11 years old or a Russian troll. Again, thanks for making it easy on me. I appreciate you being so awful that you are an automatic block.

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a reason authoritarians are attracted to libel, that you have to interact with my post, about my decision to use them for my email needs? Buzz off if you're not providing me far far left internet services. I have a «Do Not Interact» in my bio.