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[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 62 points 2 weeks ago

That is the end goal of this legislation, yes.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Aye shame he supported the people enacting it. Could’ve seen that coming a mile off really.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago

Surely the leopards would never eat MY face.

[–] Kirca@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The CEO of Proton threw his weight behind Trump’s Fucking Clown Caucus about them being “better for small businesses”.

Bruh, I need a alternative to proton

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Trump+Republicans

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Proton CEO can suck my sweaty balls for all I care.

I stopped using Proton as soon as I saw his tweets praising Trump.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The privacy community will lose their shit if this is even hinted at. Fuck Proton forever

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Actually the "privacy community" is already pretty on top of this, see:

https://lemmy.world/post/24301835

For me, whether it was officially retracted or not there are plenty of options that don't come with the potential fascist endorsement so I'll just go with one of them instead.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Already? This was years ago, wasn't it?

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

It was last year, and "already" was a response to the presumption that the privacy community didn't know about it.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What's a good alternative?

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 2 weeks ago

There are many good alternatives. Tuta if you want full encryption. Mailbox.org is also nice and it supports the IMAP protocol.

[–] icedaemon0@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the point (the govs want)

[–] LedgeDrop@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

...and Big Tech (there user tracking/profiling becomes much more valuable when there is a real name associated with it).

[–] the_citizen@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Freedom of internet is dependent to privacy. Countries' fake concerns about children only pursue to kill privacy, so freedom. But nobody can take out internet. It's not how things work here. At least this is what I hope.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The next step is ISP regulation. Once the ISPs are forced to enforce all of this crap, the free internet will well and truly be dead.

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd be curious to see how they're gonna sell that. Age verification wouldn't really work there, since you can't buy internet access as a minor.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They didn't even have to sell THIS. They just DID it. Public opinion doesn't matter anymore. Even if it did, this is WAY worse than the Net Neutrality pushback in the past, and it's getting a FRACTION of people mobilized against it.

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Life was easier on Usenet.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If you pay. It used to be free from your ISP. And it was one of the busiest places at that time.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So does he not know about Tor or the dark web ?

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

He does. He also understands that 99% of the world doesn't, so it has no impact on his statement.