@inthehands The last part seems like the biggest issue for my specific concern though right? If I'm using Proton maybe Google has half of my emails, Microsoft and Apple splitting most of the rest - but they aren't all in one place. I guess that might be a fairly trivial obstacle though?
@inthehands my concern would be more, all my mail in one place, ready to be tied up in a bow and handed over to a gov agency with a subpoena. Wouldn't their model prevent that? (of course, it wouldn't prevent a "wiretap")
ugh... looking at the alternatives I am starting to think I might still proceed with my switch to protonmail - the CEO is clearly a dumbfuck and I don't want to support his dumbfuckery, but they seem like the most reliable email hosting option that I don't have to trust
@inthehands This is making me nervous, because so much of the enthusiasm I'm hearing about him comes from his "attack dog auditions", but what you're saying sounds a lot like Tim Kaine.
We need the left to come to broadly understand Big Tech as our enemy, the way they see us. And we need to start organizing accordingly, and build up alternatives to render their services irrelevant. We have the people, the talent. We just need to prioritize this and get organized. (And some funding)
We are faced with an unprecedented opportunity to put Donald Trump in jail, leave the GOP in ruins, make Elon and his tech oligarch buddies cry, and force the NYT editorial board to seethe in its irrelevance.
@evan@mattl@ben I've heard people try to argue that they are costing Musk more by being there, and I get that he's a bad businessman, but that seems highly unlikely.