Yeah, it's real. I'm trying to get off facebook as much as possible but it's the only place I can reach a lot of my friends. : p
I also need to find an alternative end to end encryption for phone calls and sms since Signal stopped doing it. : p
There's all kinds of shit going on right now - A lot of apps, especially facebook and google bullshit, track your location in real time to the meter. that means they know if you went to planned parenthood, how many times, when, how long you were there, etc. All permanently recorded, all available to the fash if they ask nicely or get a subpoena, state laws depending.
There was an article about a Sheriff in Cali sharing license plate reader data with other states in flagrant violation of California law. License plate readers are automatic systems installed in cop cars that register the plate of every car they pass, time stamp it and geolocate it. Then they can send it to other cops.
Yeah, it's real. I'm trying to get off facebook as much as possible but it's the only place I can reach a lot of my friends. : p
If you provide an easy alternative and suffix it with a “I am not reachable on x” I’ve had success. Your results may vary.
As far everything else… I agree. It’s terrifying. Rage-inducing, even. People who see this and understand, we are watching the foundations of a literal cyberpunk k dystopia be built.
What would Gibson say about the patriot act if he wrote nueromancer now?
Yeah, it's real. I'm trying to get off facebook as much as possible but it's the only place I can reach a lot of my friends. : p
It might be time to just give them your contact info, and rip the quitting-Facebook bandaid off.
There's all kinds of shit going on right now - A lot of apps, especially facebook and google bullshit, track your location in real time to the meter. that means they know if you went to planned parenthood, how many times, when, how long you were there, etc. All permanently recorded, all available to the fash if they ask nicely or get a subpoena, state laws depending.
No online service with legal ties to the United States (which scarily includes hexbear itself) is going to be safe from persecution.
The lookup tools I've tried say France via OVH, and protected by Cloudflare. But OVH, Cloudflare, and the .net registry have legal connections to the United States. That's fine for a general purpose forum. But that's three avenues for American prosecutors to attack Hexbear without even factoring in the nationalities of the admins.
Edit: I don't want to come across as hostile to the way the site is set up and administered. I just think that Americans need to start being very careful about what they say on forums legally linked to American citizens and companies, and not to assume that a site is safe because it's hosted outside the US.
personally I would reccommend to anyone worried by things like this abortion ruling a simple rule whereby you avoid posting anything incriminating online. It's too hard to keep track of what's hosted where you won't do it.
send nothing in an email, discord message, whatever you wouldn't be happy to have read out in court
Yeah, it's real. I'm trying to get off facebook as much as possible but it's the only place I can reach a lot of my friends. : p
I also need to find an alternative end to end encryption for phone calls and sms since Signal stopped doing it. : p
There's all kinds of shit going on right now - A lot of apps, especially facebook and google bullshit, track your location in real time to the meter. that means they know if you went to planned parenthood, how many times, when, how long you were there, etc. All permanently recorded, all available to the fash if they ask nicely or get a subpoena, state laws depending.
There was an article about a Sheriff in Cali sharing license plate reader data with other states in flagrant violation of California law. License plate readers are automatic systems installed in cop cars that register the plate of every car they pass, time stamp it and geolocate it. Then they can send it to other cops.
If you provide an easy alternative and suffix it with a “I am not reachable on x” I’ve had success. Your results may vary.
As far everything else… I agree. It’s terrifying. Rage-inducing, even. People who see this and understand, we are watching the foundations of a literal cyberpunk k dystopia be built.
What would Gibson say about the patriot act if he wrote nueromancer now?
Real torment nexus hours. In most ways the dystopia is already here. Like Gibson said long ago; The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
Oh fuck, that goes hard.
It might be time to just give them your contact info, and rip the quitting-Facebook bandaid off.
No online service with legal ties to the United States (which scarily includes hexbear itself) is going to be safe from persecution.
Yup. Best you can do is try to make them work for it a little.
Is this site hosted in amerikkka
The lookup tools I've tried say France via OVH, and protected by Cloudflare. But OVH, Cloudflare, and the .net registry have legal connections to the United States. That's fine for a general purpose forum. But that's three avenues for American prosecutors to attack Hexbear without even factoring in the nationalities of the admins.
Edit: I don't want to come across as hostile to the way the site is set up and administered. I just think that Americans need to start being very careful about what they say on forums legally linked to American citizens and companies, and not to assume that a site is safe because it's hosted outside the US.
personally I would reccommend to anyone worried by things like this abortion ruling a simple rule whereby you avoid posting anything incriminating online. It's too hard to keep track of what's hosted where you won't do it.
send nothing in an email, discord message, whatever you wouldn't be happy to have read out in court
This is true, but it doesn't solve the problem of other people talking about one.
If anyone ever sends me anything like that I reply back that I don't know what they're talking about
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