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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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This is exactly what the nazis did when they invaded multiple countries. Found the registries of Jews and you know the rest.
There was a Masto post recently where someone's conservative mother told her that she knows being gay is a choice, because she feel attraction to girls, but she chooses not to act on it, and that's the responsible Christian thing to do or w/e.
It legit made me all of a sudden realize why there's so much overlap between "we have to punish the gays and make it illegal" and "I secretly go to male prostitutes all the time" in Republican circles. It just all of a sudden harmonized and clicked into place and made perfect sense.
Many that think being gay is a choice, are in fact bisexual themselves. So for them it's a choice on whether or not to act on it. And they project that everyone else is the same.
As a Christian: this is absolutely despicable. Jesus taught us to love our neighbors, and a huge part of loving someone is to respect their boundaries.
So screw this app and the people that built it. If you want to invite your neighbors to learn about Jesus:
- Set a good example
- Get to know them
- Invite only when it's relevant (i.e. to a kid's baptism or whatever)
If they want to learn about Jesus, they'll ask.
As an atheist, I wish there were more Christians like you.
There are millions of them. You wouldn't know it though, because they don't announce themselves.
If I were the devil and this world was mine to see Well, I'd witness all the atrocities and it'd probably frighten me So I'd run back home with a story to tell I'd tell all my demon friends that I always preferred Hell — Colby Acuff
One of the existential terrors of deconstruction is realizing the human species is plenty capable of evil and atrocity, that no demons are needed
Then when we've seen the absolute worst humans could imagine, Sir David Attenborough comes along holding Nature's beer.
As an ex-christian, the most un-christlike behavior is often espoused by Christians.
As the saying goes: one bad apple spoils the barrel.
I think most Christians are fine, at least the Christians who understand and try to follow Christ's teachings, it's just the few "Christian influencers" or whatever that are a pox on society. I try to distance myself from them as much as possible, and encourage the rest to be better examples.
That is absolutely terrifying.
If I made a least of where all the Christians live, they’d rightfully freak the fuck out.
they've done it for you by accident
It would be a real shame if people started leaving reviews on the play store with their concerns. Real shame i tell you, its sitting at a 4.7 rating with all but 1 five star, and they gave it a four star.
Anyways for any god loving Christian who just wants to download their app to pray for their neighbors, ive taken the ten seconds needed to visit their site and grabbed their app links.
Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blesseveryhome.bealight
Apple https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bless-every-home/id1541313484
While I'd love to add my opinion to the Play Store reviews, there's no way in Hell I'm installing some kind of Christofascist malware on any device that I control.
Downloaded, used an empty home for the address, selected The Satanic Temple as my church, deleted the app, and gave it one star. Took 5 minutes.
This definitely shouldn't be the top comment. Don't cross-post it to other communities who prefer that christofascists don't harass and dox immigrants and any non-christians they hate (see: most genders).
Noooooo sir.
And definitely don't report it as "Hateful or abusive" content or anything, it's not like Google or Apple is using automated algorithms to auto disable apps for a period of time after certain thresholds of reports are hit or anything like that
The church is an organization that preys on people using their fear of death.
Welp, time to create the reverse app and tag houses that are religious.
Do what you want with that information.
Nah, just wait for the inevitable data dump because they won't pay for competent security, and invert the data. No need to get the data yourself when they're pretty much doing it for you!
These lunatics have a disturbing amount of control in the US government.
Laughing at them might be fun, and I was doing it until recently, but they’re not joking. The worse our climate disasters become – and they will very soon – the more scared people will become, and the more these groups will take advantage of that fear. We’ll see more climate refugees, more desperation, and more fear. These groups prey on fear, and they’ll amplify it on purpose.
True fascism thrives on fear, which is why these people amplify it like they do. When climate disasters accelerate, these groups will harness the social upheaval to take control. I don’t know what we can do to stop it, but we should all be thinking about and sharing ways to head it off, because they’ve got plans in place already.
I know I sound paranoid, but I’ve been watching them and these aren’t my ideas, but theirs. They talk about this a lot, and if we aren’t prepared, their plans could actually work. I don’t want to live in the fascist future they’re planning. If we don’t combat it, we’ll be living in the Handmaid’s Tale before most of us realise.
This is a yikes, they're doing the Westboro Church tactics without wanting the money, just to harass.
The Mapping Center for Evangelism and Church Growth’s founder and president Chris Cooper suggests using the app to conduct neighborly activities such as putting on a barbecue for potential converts, but scattered throughout the app’s training and promotional videos are suggestions to undertake the controversial practice of “prayerwalking.” An idea becoming increasingly popular among Christian supremacist groups, prayerwalking involves believers flooding so-called “un-Christian” territories in order to combat “demonic strongholds.” In practice, it varies from blessing new neighbors to gathering groups to pray in front of everything from mosques to drag bars in service of “spiritual warfare.”
Wait till they start using that same data to harass and target.
I mean that's exactly where we are headed in the US.
Project2025 in part wants to institute laws against blasphemy... They quite literally want to make the united states a theocracy, absolutely no fucking exaggeration here. It's literally what they want.
JFC, I installed the app and added "my address" and immediately was given a list of names and addresses to "pray for".
How am I supposed to pray for so many people!? What am I, an ATM?! Gelatians 4:20:69 had nothing to do with Gelato!1! This is getting 1 star and reported on the app store.
This is terrifying. Thank fuck I'm not in the US. I already get anxious when some random knocks on my door. If they started spouting off about praying for me and my family I'd be weirded right the fuck out.
Granted, I love my physical privacy. I generally don't answer the door to plain cloths unless I'm expecting someone. My 5 year goal is to move outside of my current town and have no neighbours. Preferably with a nice long driveway that I may install a gate on at the road.
This is concerning. I don't want some stranger knowing personal details about me before I even know they exist
I've received letters twice from the same individual who belongs to a JW church. The first was when they moved into the area, and the second was when I moved to another place.
Your property ownership records (if you're American) are public records, and if you grab it within like, 3 years (where I live), you can even find the closing price and more detailed information on the sale.
Demand better privacy laws.
We really must find a way to purge our collective selves of the scourge of religion.
When people ring your bell to annoy you about religion, reply by trying to converting them into atheism or another religion (satanism included)
This is real bad. I'm a christian (albeit a very unorthodox one), and this goes against everything Christians are supposed to follow according to the bible. This can only be construed as church authoritarianism. Maybe this is why I'm looked down upon by most "Christians" out there, but I could not care less. If a christian says or does anything that does not align with LOVE EVERYONE,that's not a christian, but a "faith merchant". Their "privacy policy" is tailored to make it seem like they are doing God's work, when reading it with the intent to understand clearly displays the intention to gather data on you and everyone around you. And I'm sorry, but anyone that does this is guilty of wanting data to sell until proven otherwise, no exceptions.
- Who Has Access to Your Data
"Your password is not accessible by or shared with anybody. Not even we can access it. It is stored in an inaccessible encrypted format."
So, ONLY the password is encrypted, everything else is stored as clearly as a traffic sign. Noted.
"None of the information entered by you is shared with anybody unless you specifically give us permission to do so by opting in to affiliate your Light role with one or more of our partner organizations; by opting in to have your contact information available to other Light roles in your neighborhood; or by creating an administrator role in a partner organization."
Where have we seen this before? Ah, right, in EVERY parivacy policy on every single company known to sell our data for profit without caring about anyone or anything except getting more money.
Funny thing is, there's no mention anywhere on how they are getting the data on what they call the "blessees". Care to take a wild guess on how that's done?
I am genuinely sorry that this is happening, and blown away by how disgusting this is. No wonder most people don't want anything to do with us, Christianity has become everything Jesus spoke against.
I'm assuming in a bid to conduct door-to-door preaching is what the title was supposed to say?
They've also just mapped themselves by selecting the inverse
Can we appreciate how incredibility messed up it is to have Christians trying to tell other religions are not valid? It is terribly messed up to try to convert Muslims to Christianity.
With that being said it is important to note that this is a small group of people in Christianity. They are ruining the reputation for all denominations and creating Christian hate which will hurt Christians everywhere in the long run. I wonder how they would react if there was Jewish protest in front of there Church