Now the real question is will the mainstream left turn on Zuck, and accuse HIM of misinformation?
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Why was Telegram's CEO arrested?
Depends on what network you read:
SimpleX: To get user data
Nostr: To censor
Farcaster: Crackdown on crypto trading
Bastyon: Israeli data breach. Blame the jews!
Twitter: They are coming for Elon next!
Lens: Must be evil capitalism. I paid $10 of Ethereum to type about money being evil.
Telegram itself: He must have done real crimes. We gotta stop crime right?
It starts with not being a bitcoin maxi, because bitcoin has no binding contract
While as something like hosting websites on Arweave is a decentralized business that takes in revenue:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/categories/arweave.html
Arweave isn't competing with lightning for general cash, so should not trigger the insane "shitcoin" response.
But hey, I expect to be ignored with this post. Since I think you’re looking for likes and not solutions.
Telegram's CEO arrest is likely over Israel
--Israeli data hacked
--Leaked on Telegram
--Arrest is likely a response to a refusal to censor
Quotes from Anadolu from Aug 21st:
‘The leaks are likely the most severe in Israel’s history -- an unprecedented looting of gigabytes upon gigabytes of information of all sorts,’ says Israeli daily
"The leaked data has appeared on platforms like Telegram, prompting a series of takedown attempts by Israeli authorities. However, Telegram’s limited moderation policies have complicated these efforts."
Source:
It's insane Telegram's CEO was jailed for allowing Russian disinformation,
When even the mainstream US news covered the CIA's violent coup of Ukraine. (before the Russian invasion)
This is my previous writing with the citations:
The corrupt Biden administration’s unwinnable war in Ukraine has bankrupted the nation. Even mainstream propaganda outlets such as The Guardian, Reuters, and the BBC reported on leaked audio of Barrack Obama’s head of Ukraine policy Victoria Nuland. [9a] This leaked phone call revealed that the US backed an illegal and violent coup of Ukraine’s Democratically elected leader. [9b] The Obama administration admitted the leaked audio was true, which demonstrated the US picked the supposedly democratically elected leaders that resulted from their planned uprising. [9c][6]
Funding Nazis
Barrack Obama funded violent Nazis to overthrow Ukraine’s government. [11a] The media tries to brainwash voters by calling it “Russian propaganda”, but the evidence is clear in an FBI indictment of Americans involved that’s posted on the New York Times website. [12b] To quote from journalist Max Blumenthal:
“… an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia” [12a]
[9a] The Guardian
[9b] Reuters
Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
By Doina Chiacu and Arshad Mohammed
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1601K/
[9c] BBC
Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
[10] NY Times
[11a] Scott Horton Podcast
11/27/18 Max Blumenthal on U.S.-Funded Neo-Nazism
by Scott | Nov 29, 2018 | Interviews
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-27-18-max-blumenthal-on-u-s-funded-neo-nazism/
[11b] Consortium News
Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists
[12a] FBI: Azov Battalion Trained Rise Above Movement
By Max Blumenthal
[12b] New York Times
FBI: Robert Rundo Complaint
Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov. The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military. There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the CIA.
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Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine’s military intelligence.)
And the CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe, and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence.
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Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.
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Also the violent coup from a few years earlier we wrote about, wanna comment on that?
It is truly disgusting that you are accusing anyone of criticizing US foreign policy as automatically a “Putin puppet” to oppress knowledge. You should remove the Bitcoin symbol from your profile, as the primary purpose of separating money and the state would be to starve the central banking from funding the exact thing you’re right now a cheerleader for.
NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
Zerohedge covering it:
My writing:
The corrupt Biden administration’s unwinnable war in Ukraine has bankrupted the nation. Even mainstream propaganda outlets such as The Guardian, Reuters, and the BBC reported on leaked audio of Barrack Obama’s head of Ukraine policy Victoria Nuland. [9a] This leaked phone call revealed that the US backed an illegal and violent coup of Ukraine’s Democratically elected leader. [9b] The Obama administration admitted the leaked audio was true, which demonstrated the US picked the supposedly democratically elected leaders that resulted from their planned uprising. [9c][6]
Funding Nazis
Barrack Obama funded violent Nazis to overthrow Ukraine’s government. [11a] The media tries to brainwash voters by calling it “Russian propaganda”, but the evidence is clear in an FBI indictment of Americans involved that’s posted on the New York Times website. [12b] To quote from journalist Max Blumenthal:
“… an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia” [12a]
My sources:
[9a] The Guardian
[9b] Reuters
Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
By Doina Chiacu and Arshad Mohammed
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA1601K/
[9c] BBC
Ukraine crisis: Transcript of leaked Nuland-Pyatt call
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
[10] NY Times
[11a] Scott Horton Podcast
11/27/18 Max Blumenthal on U.S.-Funded Neo-Nazism
by Scott | Nov 29, 2018 | Interviews
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/11-27-18-max-blumenthal-on-u-s-funded-neo-nazism/
[11b] Consortium News
Ukraine Merges Nazis and Islamists
[12a] FBI: Azov Battalion Trained Rise Above Movement
By Max Blumenthal
[12b] New York Times
FBI: Robert Rundo Complaint
As you likely already heard, Telegram's CEO Durov was arrested for spreading misinformation
But what you might not realize is that the New York Times literally leaked that the CIA lied about starting the war with Russia, by building bases on the border and firing into Russia, way before the invasion. So it's the US media that is spreading misinformation.
Quote Lying MSN:
"Durov’s preference for hands-off moderation has also helped make it a haven for misinformation, with the site only controlling its content when it’s forced to do so by other governments and organizations."
This only further demonstrates the need for better technology and more anonymity to defy irrational tyranny.
Start preparing your devices and accounts for privacy,
Start getting off the fiat banking system,
Start learning how to do peer-to-peer economics,
In an empire of lies, the truth is treason
Who decides what to censor as spam?
Nostr and Lens solve the "spam and scam" problem by having the client decide. For example Amethyst for android will hide posts from accounts that others report as scams. These "others" are defined by people you follow, but this essentially puts it up to a community vote of large influencers to silence you.
On Lens, once you're labeled spam, you appear in the "show more" of comments. This is a huge turn-off to new users with no followers, who are treated like lower class citizens.
Farcaster solves it in a similar way, but by having the official team label it, and then since their client is so large and influential, their list is often distributed to other clients. This is absolutely horrible and way too centralized. While it's true that posts to your followers would still show up, they are effectively silencing your comments.
Session has zero censorship for mass DMs in the way I use it, even under outright sanctions. The nodes don't even know I am the sender, and I'm assigned new receivers if they drop me. That's why I like it. But the market likes simpleX more because it rotates encryption keys, so it's tough to get new followers. Can't fight the market.
Bastyon solves the problem by a community vote for outright illegal content, to get it off the nodes, such as child porn and narcotics sales. The voters are picked based on their total upvotes, called "reputation". I disagree with this approach, as if we're going to vote, it should be the nodes hosting it (like Arweave does)...
Files on Arweave have an unofficial vote, where the nodes can opt out of storing it. And if all the miners chosen in a block opt out, then there's no financial penalty for dropping the content. But if they have the content and others don't, then they have a financial advantage to mine that block over competitors. This approach is good for websites, but for a social network with permissionless replies, it's way too passive.
Therefore:
I disagree with all these solutions.
In my view, the best way to handle spam (in a permissionless system) is to allow the original poster to decide which replies are spam. Then the end user can decide to toggle on or off "criticism and spam" for the replies. After all, if you're following someone, you trust their judgment on the subject they are speaking about. And this decentralizes the decision to each individual poster.
Now I do the ironic thing, and turn it over to my replies. Do you think this approach is right?
It is not END to END encrypted unless the same provider.
Therefore:
You are promoting centralization. Everyone on the same provider.
Understood, that's why we're trying to help people to make it fast and easy. Now does that have trust in us? Yes.
But the goal is to get people in a place where they are more self-sovereign
First,
If a Protonmail user emails a Tutanota user, it is NOT end-to-end encrypted.
Therefore,
Your solution of there already exists all these options is bullshit, because the options contradict each other.
Further,
It is unclear why a Nostr user, who promotes Bitcoin, (decentralized social media and money), would be opposed to decentralized email.
Finally,
I reject your entire worldview of having people self-host Bitcoin nodes, which add no value to their lives.
Yet, you dismiss people owning a VPS with their communications, emails, docs, files, ect.
Conclusion,
Given your complete failure to acknowledge basic facts, you're essentially spamming. To say you're worthless would be an improvement, currently you are sucking up my resources to respond to low level dribble. So fuck off and let's end this convo
"Federal labor regulator says delivery drivers are Amazon employees"
Previously Amazon avoided working with unions, by classifying employees as "third-party contractors". Now a regional National Labor Relations Board director said that the company is really an employer. And so this ruling will essentially force Amazon to work with unions.
You know it's ironic that left-wing Jeff Bezos, who tries to force an agenda of government control to supposedly protect the everyday person, is actually the one who is trying to dance and bullshit his way around the very "Big Brother" laws he promotes.
Even his own paper the Washington Post admits defeat:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/22/amazon-teamsters-delivery-drivers/
We can take your logic a step further, if Tutanota's CEO were here on Nostr today promoting his product, you'd say "Oh don’t self-host your own thing, we already have Protonmail, Mailbox, Countermail, and Startmail".
Look how many choices you listed. Proton-to-Tutanota isn't E2EE, so it's only among that provider. If the person you're talking to is cool enough to use privacy email, they are cool enough to use a REAL private protocol like simplex. The purpose of email is the people you're reaching out to don't care. And the businesses you sign up for are forcing you to your account to it.
Also take a step back and think about what you're really standing for right now. You're literally trying to haze me for telling people to be decentralized and as self-sovereign as they can be .... and you're instead trying to degrade what I'm doing to promote millionare Protonmail. Like what's your goal?
Clearly we would be in a better place if everyone and their mother had their own VPS with email. So it's unclear your agenda.
I hear you on the tinfoil hat. Part of this is not per say they are getting your data, but also about control. One of the members of our chat group was talking about being banned from proton for sending business emails in small bulk. He was saying how it was fairly small amount, but he lost the account.
So it's about privacy yes, but also control over your digital home.
I have not researched into fedora. But the question is not is any provider per say compromising you, but if you have root access to control it.
My message is: Don’t trust external services, run it yourself. Have a digital home, not just for email. for docs, chat, ect.