No probs. Why not, do they have you blocked, or did piefed code in a Cowbee filter 🤣

This is the right answer. The PRC doesn’t let US surveillance giants operate within their country like most other countries naively do.

NoWayKnowHow - The firewall is good actually

You can curate your own feed: use the block button for any communities you don’t want to see.

As for why there’s a lot of politics on lemmy: The west’s leading country just threatened to annihalate an entire civilization yesterday. Kind of a lot going on right now.

As @Cowbee@lemmy.ml mentioned, PSL (and a few other socialist parties), are the only real opposition, since they’re a working-class party that’s consistently anti-war and anti-capitalism.

From crash course socialism:

Socialists view democracy under capitalism to be impossible. Most current-day systems are better labeled as Bourgeois Democracy, or democracy for the rich only, which socialists contrast with proletarian democracy. Under capitalism, political parties, representatives, infrastructure, and the media are controlled by capitalists, who place restrictions on the choices given to workers, limit their representative options to vetted capitalist puppets, and limit the scope of public debate to pro-capitalist views.

Bourgeois democracies are in reality Capitalist Dictatorships, resulting in legislation favorable to the wealthy, regardless of the population’s actual preferences. The Princeton Study, conducted in the US in 2014, found that the preferences of the average US citizen exert a near-zero influence on legislation, making the US system of elections and campaigning little more than political theater. Multi-party, Parliamentary / representative democracy has proven to be the safest shell for capitalist rule, regardless of voting methods or differing political structures, for countries as diverse as Australia, Japan, Sweden, the UK, the US, South Korea, or Brazil.

Ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle more accurately defined Democracy as rule by the poor, and they considered states based on elections to be anti-democratic Aristocracies, since only the wealthy and ruling families have the resources to finance elections. They contrasted this with random selection / sortition, and citizen’s assemblies, as being the defining features of democracy, both of which are nonexistent in the countries listed above. Today, liberal / parliamentary “democracies” are dominated by wealthy candidates, and entrenched political families, with Capitalists standing above political power.

This system of sham elections acts as a distracting theater piece, giving the illusion of democracy, whilst in reality it serves to platform capitalist views, make them appear more popular than they are, and manufacture consent for the system itself.

Examples of restrictions include a media and news monopoly, 2, gerrymandering, long term limits with no way to recall unpopular representatives, restrictions crafted to disenfranchise poor and minority voters, bills directly crafted by lobbyists and bourgeois lawmakers, voter suppression, electoral fraud, unverifiable closed source electronic voting systems, capitalist campaign financing, low voter to representative ratios, inconvenient voting locations and times, and most importantantly, candidate stacking. Most elections are performed before we ever get to the polling booth. In short, political democracy can’t exist without economic democracy, and true democracy is only possible when workers control production.

The impossibility of Capitalist democracy to make a transition to working-class democracy is best shown by the phrase: Capitalists will not allow you to vote away their wealth. Pacifism, and elections have never been an effective means of disenfranchising the ruling class.

Communists propose building alternatives alongside of bourgeois democracy, with the goal of to replacing it with Proletarian democracy. Measures might include:

• Replacement of bourgeois parliamentary bodies with broadly inclusive workers organizations, such as unions, councils, or syndicates.
• Seizing land, productive facilities, and housing and putting them under democratic control.
• Elimination of all debts, suppression of all private banks and stock markets.
• Direct democracy in as many decisions as possible, often called cyber communism.
• A democratically planned economy for human needs, with open participation.
• Low-level workplace democracy.
• Elimination of the standing army, and the substitution for it of armed workers.
• An emphasis on universal education, health-care, child-care, care for the elderly, and human welfare, paid for socially.
• Increase in productive technology.
• Low levels of wealth and income inequality, often driven by a system of labor vouchers for compensation.
• Experts (if any) elected by the working class through universal suffrage.
• All representatives and officials (including police) are revocable at any time.
• Public officials are paid worker’s wages.

If phones did this, especially to custom-tailor ads, like I’ve seen claimed countless times, then security researchers would be perfectly capable of uncovering this behavior without someone on the inside.

When you make calls via these services, the entirety of that data is being routed through their service. What you’re asking is if google/apple actually stores that data. You should always assume they do, for a threat analysis.

I suggest reading about the Crypto AG honeypot scandal, which was a secure service that ran for over 60 years before it was revealed to be an CIA honeypot. Leaks in the future will likely reveal the same for US surveillance capital services.

Would take a whistleblower to expose these things, and usually its done many years after.

Also its not that there’s some person currently listening. Its that they’re storing and probably transcribing all communications for all time, so that at any moment in the future, they can target a person and look up that history.

Also we know google and apple have been forwarding all these to the US goverment also, since at least ~2011, via the prism program, and thanks to Snowden and Manning’s leaks.

https://lemmygrad.ml/c/alwaysthesamemap

No probs!

Capitalists control the political system of the US. Its not a democracy, it’s a capitalist dictatorship.

What health-care systems it used to have, were only to quell decades of worker struggles fighting for equivalent health care systems the USSR was putting in place in the 1920s.

No but someone should make one.

Syncthing was made for this and has been around for almost a decade now.

You have no idea what code their server is running, and its impossible to host your own signal since its a centralized service.

They went a whole year without publishing server code updates also, until they got a lot of backlash for it. Still, even publishing those is moot since its a centralized service.

What’s your normal standard of trust that a hosted, open source project is running the same code that they’ve made public?

Its a centralized service, you have no idea what code they’re running. You can’t host your own.

Also they went a whole year one time without publishing any server code updates until they got a lot of backlash for it. Still, since its centralized, it can’t be trusted to be running what they say they are.

PRODUCT PITCH: Hey everyone, I have a great idea for a secure / private messaging service.

It’s hosted in the US, subject to its pervasive spying laws including national security letters.

Also I need all your phone numbers.

Also no you can’t host this yourself, I run the only server.

Everyone who uses signal and supports it, is falling for this pitch.

Your phone number is the biggest metadata you could possibly give (it means your real identity, including your current address), and signal has it.

Not true at all, you still need a phone number to sign up.

Give me ssh access to their centralized server so I can verify this “sealed sender” idea is working.

Otherwise this is a “trust me bro” claim.

Something being easy to use has nothing to do with privacy or security. Apple, just like signal, also sold it’s products as secure, yet they also were forwarding all communications to the US government as part of the prism program.

Signal is not a stepping stone, it’s a honey pot. Best to avoid US services that require your identity entirely.

That isn’t true. You still need a phone number to sign up.