

Paying people to go away after violating their first amendment rights and no accountability being had still leaves society worse off overall.
Moved over from Reddit after the API debacle. Primary account history:
@Zedstrian@kbin.social (2023) @Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com (2023–26) @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz (2026–)


Paying people to go away after violating their first amendment rights and no accountability being had still leaves society worse off overall.


Alternative to CBS.


No, but they do that to plenty of their own citizens.
Better something from a non-authoritarian country that doesn’t also happen to be in the Five Eyes intelligence network.


The Telegram servers are in Miami, Amsterdam, and Singapore, so some data is still stored in the U.S.
In any case, it wouldn’t be any better to have data stored in a country like China or Russia.


When I emailed my representative about the importance of protecting consumer privacy rights from big tech in the vein of the GDPR, all I got back was a response spewing bullshit about “American competitiveness”. 🤷🏻♂️


Good news, though even the old one looks gerrymandered.



Unofficial updates; somewhat of a misleading title.


not the populist Antifa nonsense
No matter how much the fascists in office keep repeating it, there is no centralized “antifa” group. It’s applied to a diverse grouping of left-wing movements that seek to counteract the rise of Christian nationalist fascism, something that is sorely needed with the policies being enacted by the current administration.
And anyone who places more weight in lies about transgender women being a risk to cisgender women over the wellbeing of transgender people is not a centrist.


Unfortunately in many cases there isn’t a viable alternative that bypasses paywalls, but just something to keep in mind. The best compromise is to use something like uBlock Origin that blocks the DDOS script.


Archive.is attempted to DDOS the blog of someone who was looking into the identity of its operator, while also modifying certain pages to include the username of the blog’s owner.


The problematic nature of archive.is aside, there’s not much value to be had in preserving articles propagating transphobia.


AI slop meets e-waste.


It’s better to link to Reuters directly than go through the Twitter link shortener.


mistakenly deported
Oops, how did that happen? /s


Alternative to CBS.


Alternative to Fox News.


The rest of the world wouldn’t have to agree to it, but I do think it would be a needless complication.


War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and discrimination is human rights.
There’s already 200,000 and they want to add 200,000 more.