I wonder if renowned professors and academics are on average more ethical or the same as then.
You hear things like OP and think "Yeah there is a good reason why we stopped treating professors as authorities to consult on anything". Just how many people must have known and just silently accepted this atrocity.
Speech has been turned into a commodity, and thus easily controlled.
Signal requires to use phone number, which in many countries is legally required to be tied to your personal identity. Like the SMS provider must have a copy of your id card. You're basically naked to the CIA when using Signal. Even if not like in the US they presumably mass collect SIM and location correlations for ID. For the life of me I do not understand how anyone can promote that shit.
So the "honeypot" of Signal is that the mainstream promotes it as IF it was a privacy focused app when it's very glaringly obviously is not. So the effect is that it prevents market space and attention for other apps actually focused on privacy without requiring ID to sign up. It's a bit like introducing sterile insects to prevent the spread of unwanted pests (= actually secure communication).
They are perfect for torrenting though. The kind of activity 3 letter agencies don't want their spying to be disturbed for.
~~Who is the third from the left?~~
PS: Sorry that was politically incorrect, let me rephrase my question: Who is the second from the far right?
There are too many forks already lol. And none of the forks have the features I want anyway. It's also expensive.
Thanks, yeah seems it was a mistake. The CEO / founder is I believe a libertarian, but at least he believes in something, like privacy.
Butlerian Jihad? I'm skeptical.
The "technology" to mentally manipulate and control populations improves as well. PR, advertisment, propaganda, whatever you wanna call it, is getting stronger and stronger. Social media has trained people to act in very predictable patters that are easily exploited.
Is there an article about this?
Fascism is capitalism in decay. The neoliberals in the democratic establishment and their presidential failures share at least 50% of the blame. But it's the same all over the west, Europe is not that far behind.
I drink neither but... just fucking no.
Just FYI: It's not the network provide we have to worry about in my country. That is specific to the USA I believe.
Here they have "headhunters" that make a contract with a rights holder, torrent a file, write down the IP of someone who uploads a video to them, then legally request the name to the IP and send an invoice for about $2000. No three warnings or anything. And they are very good at sending legal officials to impound any of your valuable stuff in case you don't pay.
Even other "illegal" activity like calling Israel an apartheid regime or supporting palestine or insulting your head of state might get you flagged by a three letter agency, but they won't use official legal channels. There is a protection of the herd with VPN.