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It also says "Dark Web." They might be trying to not tip their hand by mentioning specific sites or someone from Marketing wrote the list.

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Good question. In a way, the Fedi is a bit like the Storm Area 51 flashmob joke: "they can't catch all of us!"

The diversified instances may make it harder to track every server and every individual.

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Sooo the party against a surveillance state creates a surveillance state. Am i getting this right?

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What would you like me to say, "Encourages the innovative surveillance state so long as it fits their agenda"?

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which was signed into effect by which party again?

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That was my point.

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Why... the two chess websites? That seems really random. I know chess has boomed within the past 5 years, but really? Both of them?

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You must have missed the Bush era/Snowden era:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/nsa-linux-journal-extremist-forum-and-its-readers-get-flagged-extra-surveillance

A new story published on the German site Tagesschau and followed up by BoingBoing and DasErste.de has uncovered some shocking details about who the NSA targets for surveillance including visitors to Linux Journal itself.

While that is troubling in itself, even more troubling to readers on this site is that linuxjournal.com has been flagged as a selector! DasErste.de has published the relevant XKEYSCORE source code, and if you look closely at the rule definitions, you will see linuxjournal.com/content/linux* listed alongside Tails and Tor. According to an article on DasErste.de, the NSA considers Linux Journal an "extremist forum". This means that merely looking for any Linux content on Linux Journal, not just content about anonymizing software or encryption, is considered suspicious and means your Internet traffic may be stored indefinitely.

One of the biggest questions these new revelations raise is why. Up until this point, I would imagine most Linux Journal readers had considered the NSA revelations as troubling but figured the NSA would never be interested in them personally. Now we know that just visiting this site makes you a target. While we may never know for sure what it is about Linux Journal in particular, the Boing Boing article speculates that it might be to separate out people on the Internet who know how to be private from those who don't so it can capture communications from everyone with privacy know-how. If that's true, it seems to go much further to target anyone with Linux know-how.

Let me reiterate this part: the NSA considers Linux Journal an "extremist forum".

I guess my interest in not wanting ads shoved down my throat or not wanting to deal with Microsoft anymore makes me an extremist.

The seeds for this were planted long ago.

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It seems only fair that this contractor's method of income be known to their family, friends and community?

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Since this is a private company, could the internet theoretically flood them with so many GDPR takedown requests (since they're undoubtedly getting data from foreign citizens) and takedown requests around California, Colorado, and other state's laws that they couldn't handle the influx and he gears would be gummed up to hell... in Minecraft?

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Whenever I see a vest that says POLICE ICE on it, I always think that whoever ordered them had a stutter.

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