I saw some supposed-expert-for-what-that’s-worth on reddit according to whom this isn’t quite accurate. He said the doctrine he’d been taught was, if you get hit in a tank then it’s highly likely that more is coming, so aggressively moving in the direction from which the fire came and shooting the shit out of anything you see is your best chance for survival.
This was a comment on a video of Russian tanks getting blown up, and he said the Russian response he was observing, of stopping the tank moving, wandering around briefly, and then trying to get away with obstacles blocking you was basically the fastest way to get yourself and everyone in your tank killed. So at least the US box of this graphic should read: “FUCK EM UP FUCK EM UP MEAT’S BACK ON THE MENU”
What they’re trying to accomplish is to make people afraid to get involved in administering elections unless they’re “on the right side.”
This particular effort might or might not have any effect at all. But the point is, it’s in concert with a thousand other things. And, more importantly, they’re getting practice, and learning about what works and what doesn’t and what they can get away with, and who they can trust as their allies when things get real.
I wouldn’t even go that far, although I’m not deep into the tactics and action of getting progress done like Huey was. To me, fighting for trans rights right now is obviously a good thing. As is fighting for worker’s rights. Refusing to fight for worker’s rights alongside someone, unless they’re willing to also join your fight for (for example) trans rights, is what I think is silly.
The point I’m trying to make is, you don’t even have to do that.
There are already laws against revenge porn and realistic child porn. You don’t have to “prevent” this stuff from happening. That is, as he accurately points out, more or less impossible. But, if it happens you can absolutely do an investigation, and if you can find out who did it, you can put them in jail. That to me sounds like a pretty good solution and I’m still waiting to hear what his issue is with it.
Yeah, email is unsafe, agreed. I addressed that below, saying I thought they just wanted to separate their real-world identity from their un-private emails. If you’re trying to use Proton to keep your un-private emails private, you’re gonna have a bad time and you should use some good end-to-end solution that isn’t email instead.
I’ve been using that for a while since I ditched Chrome, and anecdotally it seems like it hits a pretty good sweet spot of “privacy-protecting to such an extent that I notice little annoyances as I browse the web, but they’re all trivial and easily bearable, which probably means it’s doing quite a lot to try to protect me.”
If someone is looking for end to end encrypted communication, I agree, they are probably better suited by another protocol. SMTP is really good at what it’s designed to do.
I agree with this. I’ll pretty much leave it at that.