Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe (ban-x-in.eu)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Crossposting here as I consider X a threat to both privacy and freedom

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

We have several major social media banned here, and they're still popular. All a ban would do would be teaching people what VPNs are... As well as exposing a lot of them to malware, because most people would not be doing research and instead of legitimate, charity-run free censorship evasion tools, they'd be using shady apps from the top of Play Store search results.

If the ban comes from "up top", people's desire to use it will not suddenly disappear. If the people decide to leave en masse on their own - now that'd make an impact.