Okay, so for those of us using third party apps like Thunderbird, everything is done using app specific passwords, which is great
The new feature for Email App Passwords for external email programmes
But if this is a new feature, how did third party apps work before? Could people just not use them if they enabled 2FA?
Could the AGPL license help with this? I'm no expert (not even an amateur) but that seems to be why it was constructed:
If you let users access any AGPL licensed software over a network, then that is also a form of distribution. This is what the GPL had missed out. With the boom of the cloud era, SaaS has exploded, and instead of distributing software directly, developers and vendors started digitally delivery of software.
https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misunderstood-license-86fd1fe91275
In fact, if you Google “FOSStodon Elon Musk,” an interesting trend appears. Anything I clicked that was critical of Musk and posted to the instance this year was deleted
Holy shit. Can you provide some examples?
Carrotcypher freaks out about any anti-Musk article in any subreddit he doesn't control, and many he does, but I didn't think the moderation was happening behind the scenes on FOSSTodon too. Which is especially reprehensible because the creators, admins, and other mods of FOSSTodon all seem pretty resolute in condemning Musk before he went full fascist.
I noticed this stuff was more measured before mid January (almost right around the Trump inauguration) but it's started expanding pretty rapidly. Maybe I need to put in a little extra legwork and figure out which news sites are being auto-censored based on his personal opinions faster than I had anticipated.
For your consideration, same moderator on the same subreddit
Mod Carrotcypher links to their own personal blog and then pins their own post.
Opsec101's homepage, made by Carrotcypher:
And here's a look at rule 3!
Call me picky, but I think the moderators should follow the rules they write and enforce.
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
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60365167
Moderator carrotcypher says "removed for paywall." When asked about which rule this breaks, receives no response. The post is then locked.
Same as the first, except this time there is no paywall - the link is to a freely accessible advocate.com page.
It is censored with no explanation.
Same as Case 2, moderators censor the post and leave no explanation.
This one is finally given a removal reason: a rule that does not exist in the sidebar, and seems to have nothing to do with the post ("Your post has been removed for being too specific to a company or single product.")
But in a censored comment, the OP of the post says they received a different removal reason:
This time, other people notice the censorship and the nonsensical nature of the official removal reason.
Since this removal, there has been no further post of this news in r/privacy. Sources tell me the moderators refuse to explain their decision.
Moderator carrotcypher says "removed for paywall." When asked about which rule this breaks, receives no response. The post is then locked.
Same as the first, except this time there is no paywall - the link is to a freely accessible advocate.com page.
It is censored with no explanation.
Same as Case 2, moderators censor the post and leave no explanation.
This one is finally given a removal reason: a rule that does not exist in the sidebar, and seems to have nothing to do with the post ("Your post has been removed for being too specific to a company or single product.")
But in a censored comment, the OP of the post says they received a different removal reason:
This time, other people notice the censorship and the nonsensical nature of the official removal reason.
Since this removal, there has been no further post of this news in r/privacy. Sources tell me the moderators refuse to explain their decision.
This action was taken under an unannounced rule that can label and censor criticism of anyone or anything with "FUD."
You'll find it's only used to protect the rich and powerful, though.
Unable to simply delete the post, the moderators scrubbed comments from anyone who named and shamed CEO James Dolan, but allowed his supporters to remain uncensored.
Criticism of basically anyone rich or powerful was removed.
Criticism of Tucker Carlson was removed.
Censored, all comments locked.
This is not a normal removal message. Most of this removal reason is from a template, the portion including "Now blacklisted" was manually added and has never been used before.
Heise is based in Germany, where the best privacy laws (the GDPR) are enforced strictly. If this site is blacklisted, then any site can be blacklisted.
"Please link to a credible source" is part of the original community rules, and maybe the moderator who edited the message forgot to remove it, because Heise is credible.
![Traveling into the US with an iphone: question about border security [question tag] ....... So I've read that you should delete any apps that may have anti-Trump content (social media, WhatsApp, etc.), but even if you factory reset your phone, all the phone messages are still there, right? ........ Is there a way to save text messages in the cloud and have them NOT on your phone (and restore them later)? ......... Maybe just traveling with a burner phone is the only way. ......... I just saw two stories of American citizens being detained at airports and ICE searching their phones for anti-Trump stuff.](https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/cb9dd0ff-6d3e-4781-8187-91fa02950c49.png)
Censored, all comments locked.
Their post is based on legitimate concerns from legitimate news sites. There is no FUD here, there is no attack on any "privacy mainstay" unless the moderators believe the US surveillance apparatus needs to be protected by them.
And if we needed more evidence the moderators are protecting the DHS, they also removed this comment from the thread's OP:
No rules were broken. Moderator carrotcypher cannot even be assed to fabricate one. (Why not just blacklist The Guardian too?)
Stupidity sounds like the more likely option, but I bet if they knew what the grants were for, they'd be cut out of malice instead. Lose-lose.