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   Jonah Aragon (jonah@mastodon.neat.computer)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2024 23:56:50 JST Jonah Aragon

   Hugely disappointing to see Andy Yen (Proton CEO) tout the Republican Party as the ones “standing up for the little guys” 🤢

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     Proton (protonprivacy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:07:04 JST Proton

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     @jonah

     Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.

     Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.

     At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

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     Proton (protonprivacy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:07:04 JST Proton

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     @jonah By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.

     Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

     Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

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     Shine McShine (shine_mcshine@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:07:04 JST Shine McShine

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     • Proton

     @protonprivacy @jonah You know, nobody's asking you to 'pick the corporate Dems'. This isn't Sophie's Choice, you don't have to pick sides.

     Yet you've decided to side with the fash.

     And those who work with fascists are, in fact, fascists.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:09:25 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Proton

     @protonprivacy @jonah Proton customer here and MSP. I'll be migrating my accounts and will be advising my clients to take their business elsewhere. I will not host with a company who decides to publicly snuggle up to these fascist fucks without any legal compulsion to do so.

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     Nelson Chu Pavlosky (skyfaller@jawns.club)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:20:04 JST Nelson Chu Pavlosky

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     • Fastmail United USA

     @ohmu @jonah Fastmail may have a union, but they laid off 60% of the bargaining unit in the middle of contact negotiations: https://union.place/@fastmailunited/112672408714595554

     So I don't know how much power the remaining union members have left, or whether I would cheer Fastmail. Ask @fastmailunited I guess.

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     Weird Socks (ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:20:05 JST Weird Socks

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     @jonah
     Also, I'm now glad I chose Fastmail. I'm sure their executives are just as awful but their work force is in a #union.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:02:41 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • BrockW_Media 📷
     • Proton

     @BroBot90001 @protonprivacy @jonah I used to recommend Fastmail.fm, but have a harder time doing so since the passage of the access and assistance bill.

     Not sure who I'll go with, but I'm definitely in the market as of now. Probably go with a host somewhere in the EU. Been a while since I ran my own mailservers, but considering going that route even though it is a royal pain to keep on top of all the various issues with self hosting.

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     BrockW_Media 📷 (brobot90001@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:02:42 JST BrockW_Media 📷

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     • Proton

     @Infoseepage @protonprivacy @jonah

     Any recommendations on alternatives?
     Got things currently set up with proton but will gladly drop it and move away from this kinda of duck headed fascist enabling.

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     BrockW_Media 📷 (brobot90001@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:43:23 JST BrockW_Media 📷

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     • Proton

     @protonprivacy @jonah

     Hey Andy! You seem to have forgotten that Trump's Attorney General William Barr tried to force backdoors in encryption.

     https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/tech-firms-can-and-must-put-backdoors-in-encryption-ag-barr-says/

     @protonprivacy why you sucking up to big tech nazis? Why choose to slurp orange nut sacks instead of shutting the fuck yup?

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     Lenko (lenko@masto.es)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:44:58 JST Lenko

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     • Proton

     @protonprivacy @jonah

     What a disappointment to read this.

     I thought I had found a truly neutral place to migrate my information and now I find it surrendered to the feet of the most stale politics.

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     Julia :v_trans: :v_bi: (not cute) (julia@eepy.moe)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:45:34 JST Julia :v_trans: :v_bi: (not cute)

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     • Proton

     @protonprivacy@mastodon.social @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer
     
     Great to know that you're fine with queer people getting killed if it means more antitrust suits. I'll find another mail service whenever I find the chance.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 04:58:25 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Proton

     @protonprivacy @jonah This is not a flavour I want from my non-US based privacy services provider.

     What's this kind of US partisan speak doing coming from a Swiss company? Complicity with political oligarchies - whether in France, Russia, the US, wherever - is exactly what you're supposed not to be for.

     Can't believe you were given the option to make a credible denial but instead doubled down.

     10/10 for honesty I suppose.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:55:42 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • BrockW_Media 📷
     • Proton

     @Aaron @BroBot90001 @protonprivacy @jonah I'm not sure of the nitty gritty of what finally passed, just that some form of it did. Basically allows law enforcement to compel telecommunications companies to cough up user data on request, but goes farther than laws in a lot of other countries in that it can require the provider to create new capacities in existing services in order for the data to be accessed.

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     Aaron :apple_inc: :isles: (aaron@social.aaroncrocco.com)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:55:43 JST Aaron :apple_inc: :isles:

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     • BrockW_Media 📷
     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
     • Proton

     @Infoseepage @BroBot90001 @protonprivacy @jonah What's that bill? I'd be curious to know more as I'm giving FastMail a trial.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 05:57:22 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Aaron :apple_inc: :isles:
     • BrockW_Media 📷
     • Proton

     @Aaron @BroBot90001 @protonprivacy @jonah It also as I understand it disallows the company from letting others know that such and order has been placed on it, meaning a company can't even tell the public that it's products are completely backdoored or let a specific user know that their data has been disclosed to law enforcement (without warrant or real oversight, as I understand it).

     It imo makes Australia one of the least secure/least private places on the planet for data hosting.

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:28:30 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Tuta
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     • BrockW_Media 📷

     @bougiewonderland @BroBot90001 @Tutanota Doesn't allow use of IMAP, though, right? I've been a Thunderbird user for ages and prefer to be able to continue to use it as my primary email environment.

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     Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈 (bougiewonderland@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:28:31 JST Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈

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     • Tuta
     • BrockW_Media 📷
     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @BroBot90001 @Infoseepage I recommend @Tutanota. I’ve been with them for over a year and have only good things to say. Even the free version comes with tons of features, including sending encrypted emails to non-users (the process was easy for both parties when I used it).

     There are extra features with the paid version but I’ve never used them, so I can’t speak to it, but I don’t see why they wouldn’t work as great.

     Communication is good too!

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     Aurelius Publius (aureliuspublius@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:29:13 JST Aurelius Publius

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     • Sally Strange

     @SallyStrange @jonah policies and platforms change, it happens believe it or not. GOP is a totally different party than before Trump and the Democrats are unrecognizable from less than a generation ago.

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     Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:29:13 JST Urzl

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     • Sally Strange

     @aureliuspublius @SallyStrange @jonah Identify which parts of the Project 2025 gameplan are going to be good for "the little guys".
     Is it the deregulation of would-be monopolies?
     The total destruction of the educational system?
     Is it the insertion of politician's opinions into common medical scenarios?
     Is it the plan to drive up the cost of living across the board with tariffs?
     The plan to deregulate all pollution?
     The elimination of safety standards?

     You're wrong.

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     Aurelius Publius (aureliuspublius@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:29:15 JST Aurelius Publius

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     @jonah no that's not what makes it factually right. It's that he's right also about the Dem and Rep parties. Anyone should be able to see that and judging by the election results most do.

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     Sally Strange (sallystrange@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:29:15 JST Sally Strange

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     • Aurelius Publius

     @aureliuspublius @jonah Yes the good cop is now the bad cop and vice versa. You are very smart

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     Aurelius Publius (aureliuspublius@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:29:16 JST Aurelius Publius

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     @jonah and he's factually right

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     Jonah Aragon (jonah@mastodon.neat.computer)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:29:16 JST Jonah Aragon

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     • Aurelius Publius

     @aureliuspublius including a fact at the end of a tweet does not make the entire tweet factually right, no

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     Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:50:29 JST Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

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     • Tuta
     • Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈
     • BrockW_Media 📷

     @bougiewonderland @BroBot90001 @Tutanota Proton solves this by running a IMAP bridge application on your PC, so you can still use it with the IMAP client of your choice.

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     Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈 (bougiewonderland@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 09:50:30 JST Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️‍🌈

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     • Tuta
     • BrockW_Media 📷
     • Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide

     @Infoseepage @BroBot90001 @Tutanota No, you’re right: you need to use their interface. It’s what allows for the encryption.