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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Torn on Signal and BlueSky (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am torn on how to handle both Signal and BlueSky. They are definitely outside of the big tech, privacy violating bunch but ultimately still part of the US ecosystem.

Especially the recent event that Elon pressured the Reddit CEO to censor a subreddit keeps me thinking.

BlueSky does in theory have federation support, but it is still in its infancy. It is also still a company, albeit a public benefits one, and thus has a commercial interest. Most people are leaving X for BlueSky so true momentum is building there rather than in Mastodon.
Signal is a foundation but servers are fully US based thus still under US jurisdiction (like the CLOUD Act). Signal is the biggest alternative messenger and even there it is hard to build enough momentum to move entire groupchats from Whatsapp to Signal.

How do you view the situation?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

So far Signal has stuck by its values, and a number of times it has threatened to pull out of a country if a new law would force them to compromise on encryption /privacy

For example, most recently

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3850597/signal-threatens-to-leave-france-if-encryption-backdoor-required.html

I'm not sure if they would do the same with the US, but I don't think they'll just agree to the demands that easily.

As for bluesky, I don't have much faith in them