I used to tell people I was a DJ when I didn't want to spend the remainder of the flight describing my music.
My point is that terminology itself has been hijacked to manipulate people into fighting over non-existent problems while their life expectancy drops, their privacy is violated, and their infrastructure crumbles.
Great example:
Chase Oliver, the 2024 Libertarian candidate, was ostracized by a whole lot of his own party members because he universally supported the rights and liberty of trans people and immigrants.
So many times someone has asked me to identify with a political quantifier, then responds with:
"Libertarian? So you don't believe in age-of-consent?"
Shit like that signals that a person has no legitimate interest in bettering society and treats politics like a high school popularity contest.
There are Libertarians that don't support private property ownership and there are Anarchists that prioritize capitalism.
The majority of the criticism I receive for my political beliefs aren't based on my beliefs, but a canned argument to someone else's quantifier.
I realize that on Bluesky this sounds like I'm defending fascists lol.
But attacking people's finances to control their freedom of beliefs is literally what Trump and Friends does. It's how they accomplish tyranny.
I like to believe that my ideas sell themselves and don't require extortion.
It's complicated in my head. 😂
The #1 reason I hate fascists is because they believe that their vision for the world is final, and punish anyone who disagrees.
So if a company isn't lobbying but an employee personally supports an idea I don't like, I have an issue with punishing them financially.
If you haven't, we would recommend reviewing the recent updates Flock made to its terms of service.
Might be worth asking your elected officials if they have seen these updates.
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If it were true (it isn't), it's worth scrutiny on a personal or ideological level.
I have some problems with withholding support of a product or service because of an executive's politics. It feels like extortion.
Now if Proton was lobbying or donating to a campaign, that's obviously different.
Never close your browser tabs, people.
Imagine watching my content and then being surprised that I'm weird and sassy.
Unfollow me then. 🤷🏻♂️
I'm a person who gets annoyed just like everyone else. I'm not sure why you'd expect me to have the social media posture of Chick-Fil-A.
I have a better proposal.
Maybe random people shouldn't send me bullshit messages that use my music and video content as an entrypoint to passive-aggressively explain generative AI to me like I'm a toddler when the entire reason I used AI was to test a solution to their problem.
Some of y'all have simply lost your damn minds.
Walgreens losing 90% of their valuation in under 10 years wasn't enough, so they came with an innovative way to keep remaining customers out of their stores.
Finally he promises to do something I fully support.
The spinning noise on that synth is probably my favorite thing about it. 😂
And that's not me bad mouthing the synth. It's actually that cool sounding.
Wild Saturday night making an optical pulse wave oscillator. 🎉
Honestly, I never got the people complaining about warning labels or using them as metaphors.
Would you rather someone who couldn't identify bleach or understand its toxicity die?
Not everyone knows everything and it benefits both parties to educate them on safely using a product or service.
This.
If they told users that using a traditional payment method jeopardized anonymity in the sign up process, they may have not had data to hand over, and their peepees wouldn't have been so hurt by someone reporting on it.
They could've addressed that. But instead we get the "fake news" defense.
"teaching them how to use them"
Is that not exactly what journalism like this accomplishes?
People are angry because it wasn't adequately communicated to them that this was a risk when they were entering their credit card information.
They have $102m in revenue every year to proactively address this problem with a solution rather than pedantically attack what words were used.
Mullvad does something similar to what I suggested. You buy a "gift code" and enter it in on your device.
Hey @proton.me, use these lemons for lemonade and consider offering fungible payment solutions.
The @404media.co story is very valid and important so your users to understand how they can maximize the potential of your services.
I don't use Google for that reason.
Attacking a nonprofit media organization and brigading comments congratulating themselves on "only sharing a little bit" isn't "doing better", it's denying that the problem even exists.
Yeah there's a whole lot of takes and everyone has the right to an opinion.
The difference is that they're random people on the internet and you're representing a company balancing the trust and data of 100 million+ users.
So the stakes are a bit higher if your defense is attacking journalists.
Let's stop this LoOkInG uP wOrDs theater and all admit that if this title was actually misleading, lawyers would be talking rather than Proton brigading social media comments.
So should the article have been about how awesome of a company Proton is for only complying to government requests for user data when legally required to?
Or should it be about how the FBI can indirectly force Proton to ID their customers via their payment information?
1. FBI sent request for user data to Switzerland.
2. Switzerland demanded data from Proton.
3. Proton complied and sent data to Switzerland.
4. Switzerland handed data to FBI.
There's really no other way of looking at this other than the FBI can ID you via your Proton account if you paid via CC.
