If there is no explanation one must assume the worst interpretation.
Wealthy connected people. The police who ultimately manage the local contracts with Flock. Federal agents and their ancillaries.
Why? “Because fuck you, we’re your betters. Keep your nose down, citizen.”
There’s actually a lot of political solidarity about mass surveillance. Go to the grimiest YouTube comment section and you’ll see the same kind of vitriol against Palantir et al that you would here.
They just think it serves the globalhomo socialist cabal trying to take over the US and not the fascist coup that already has taken over the US.
Families sharing one bed was actually pretty normal back in ye olde times. You’d even share beds with strangers at inns and such if you were traveling.
This is hardly the first time Freetube has broken at a core level. They (and their upstream dependencies) have to keep up with YouTube’s constant technical changes, some of which are deliberately hostile to people circumnavigating their panopticon.
It may take weeks or even months but they’ve fixed it up until now.
IIRC he put up an impressive and lengthy fight but ultimately got killed. Might be misremembering though.
Not if you’re given a Lawful Order ™ to produce that material. Whether or not that material is incriminating is irrelevant.
Consult US Army TM 31-210
Such as? Anything equal or adjacent to “restrict guns and ownership” is a political non-starter, and most anything less I can think of is impotent and/or easily circumvented.
Yeah. Probably had to worry about illegal snatch and grabs too. It’s just ironic that he had to turn to autocrats who use much of the same tactics he warned about.
Of course our views on Russia in 2013 were quite different to what they are now, but we always kind of knew they were a mafia state with varying levels of dedication to “playing along” on the world stage.
I dislike that he pursued asylum in Russia and I think that doing so potentially damages his credibility and motives. But what he did was important nonetheless.
If you need real confidentiality, encrypt the file on your own machine before uploading and share the key separately.
Wouldn’t people looking to host illegal content also just do this?
With that in mind, wouldn’t it be better to implement E2EE and have that user trust?
I get where you’re coming from, but that’s the unfortunate dilemma of file hosting, I’m afraid.
All true, but doesn’t mean they can’t be motivated by a red herring.
Laws restricting printers aren’t about firearms
No I think they are definitely about firearms and how they don’t want people printing untraceable Glocks and suppressors and assassinating Our Betters in broad daylight with them.
Idling 2005 Saturn Ion on a salvage title.
Not that I’m looking for advice on stealing gasoline from people, but doesn’t like every car made for the last 20 years have a mesh or something that blocks you from snaking a rubber hose into the tank?
Didn’t someone finally fess up to hoaxing that footage?
So someone out there has the bigfoot fursuit.
AI-generated vows would be a corporate-mouthed blend of every vows ever made, completely unnoteworthy.
Only human beings could achieve the truly awful.
Lots of Nazis and pro-Russia “Z” shit though.
Essentially none, they are all significantly to severely terrible on privacy.
The Slate truck looks promising due to not having a head unit from the factory but it’s anyone’s guess if and when that project comes to fruition and in what state.