DHS has issued hundreds of subpoenas to major online platforms to obtain the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of accountholders who criticize ICE.
All of these services are okay at the beginning. That’s how it always starts, then in a few years there’s an optional subscription and then there are now tiers to the subscription and now you have to use their app and give it every permission on your phone, etcetc.
Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.
Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.
True, we need the Fediverse, but the Fediverse is only a little harder to knock down, not impossible.
Expecially in the US where fighting in court could simply (and often) bankrupt you. All it is needed to take down and instance is asking the provider the owner of the IP and then sue him for something. A company could fight, a private owner no.
No.
All of these services are okay at the beginning. That’s how it always starts, then in a few years there’s an optional subscription and then there are now tiers to the subscription and now you have to use their app and give it every permission on your phone, etcetc.
Stop going to these centralized services. The centralization of ownership is the problem, not any specific website or owner.
True, we need the Fediverse, but the Fediverse is only a little harder to knock down, not impossible.
Expecially in the US where fighting in court could simply (and often) bankrupt you. All it is needed to take down and instance is asking the provider the owner of the IP and then sue him for something. A company could fight, a private owner no.