Cuz this is some real honeypot-lookin stuff right here and makes me question if they're deeply unserious about cybersecurity and protecting their members.
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unless you live in one of the major "terrorist left" cities, communists are few and far-between in the greater continental united states. Try organizing a party when your possible members are scattered by dozens of miles apart. Takes all kinds of people to make a party, too. If you expect every inquirer or applicator to be an expert of cyber security who owns their own ISP, only uses one-use disposable phones, and communicates exclusively through messenger pidgeons with cryptographic codes written in lemon juice requiring an enigma machine to decode, I hate to tell you you're going to only have a revolutionary party of you, yourself, and your lonesome.
I mean, fair enough I guess, but asking for all this information from someone just to ask a question or give a comment feels off. Like that ICE tracking site that got compromised, I visited it a couple weeks ago and immediately noped out because it was obviously sus, this feels similar. Maybe just a false alarm in my head which is why I ask, because I learned my e-paranoia from watching y'all anyway.
I think your paranoia is good. Just lie about the info, who cares?
Isn't this always the problem between good guys and bad guys? Good guys always try to tell the truth and stay within the law, while bad guys dgaf and just kill people and do coups lol.
But yea, definitely use a VPN and don't be logged in to any big tech stuff.
buddy, pal, just assume that if we use the internet then the feds can find us if they get serious and accept the fact that there is a distinct possibility greater than zero that this may lead us being dragged out of our houses to be shot and thrown in a ditch. When you step up to the plate of actually joining a party and committing to the work assigned to you by your party, you are choosing to shed degrees of your anonymity to work towards a better tomorrow. That doesn't mean you don't have to go yolo no protection just go to the most active part of your town and shout to the crowds you're a spooky scary communist to the passing crowds, but if you commit to being a communist in a communist party you have to be willing to be honest with your comrades.
Also external public access is different from internal communications. don't just assume what you're seeing on the surface is all there is in depth.
Being openly communist comes with certain risks we just have to accept. I'm pretty sure this was a big point in Revolutionary Suicide.
Haven't read his book yet, but it sounds like it could be concidered a universal concept for us
What is "all this information"?
You are asking a question so they need at least 1 way to contact you. Phone and email is pretty normal.
You dont need to provide as full name, you can give a fake name or just initials.
Location makes sense because you might get passed on to local people. That way they dont have to have 1 person answering every message from all over.
How do you think this should have been done?
To join any organization, you will have to put your name on a list. If you think not putting your name on a list will protect you, then you are paralyzed and incorrect.
If you dont want to fill this form, you can always do it the old fashioned way: go up to them at a public event.