• Cegorach@feddit.de
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      yes I did.

      It’s a bit low on facts. But it makes up for it with a lot conspiracy stuff.

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      Did you read it? It’s the same stupid conspiracy theory that comes up every few years with Tor.

      „We should make better laws.“

      Law are broken nonstop. And US laws don’t apply in Russia or China. You can’t break math, at least not yet.

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      I read it first and downvoted it after.

      It is a giant pile of horseshit. Not only is the authors parler pretty famous for being a fascist hate speech platform but the fact that shutting that whorehouse down (which I cant find anything about) is attributed to „the oligarchy“.

      Dude, this does the complete opposite of what this place here is for. We‘re trying to build a platform free of manipulation and control. Right wing propaganda has no place here.

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        I don’t get what you’re saying. Who burned down what house? What is “the oligarchy” supposed to mean? I don’t see any Parler links anywhere and I thought the platform shut down anyways? I found some older posts of his in Wired and Slate. If he’s a right winger, please show me what’s right wing but don’t come at me with some ramblings of spreading right wing propaganda.

        The US is headed to shit and they’re obviously tightening the noose in terms of wanting to do away with privacy and with Tor being basically the only widespread anti-censorship network with decent UX we all must be aware that this is a gift that can easily be subverted and taken away. Sure we can fork it, but you need some decent cryptographers to ensure it remains secure and these people don’t grow on trees.

        I don’t think the author is telling anyone not to use Tor but to keep in mind that it’ll probably only last as long as it works in the US’ favor of enabling color revolutions in “evil countries”

        Responses like yours really worry me about the political discourse.

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          “Show me where he’s right wing but if I don’t like your tone I get to call it fake those are the rules I’ve just made up”

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            That’s a stupid assumption unless you can provide examples where that actually happened.

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          We are talking about completely different things.

          I am critiquing the authors use of terms („the oligarchy“ and „parlor was shut down by the oligarchy“) which right out the gate brands them as a nut job. Neither do we have an agreed upon „oligarchy“ nor was that cesspool shut down for anything else (if that happened) than promoting hatespeech.

          And I am asking myself the same question. What is this guy talking about? What oligarchy? The rest of the article is null and void because most people will leave the second they read such nonsense.