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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.

Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.

Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.

This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻

Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

And obscure your IP
Linked from 404 article
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

The only options here are to choose a service in a jurisdiction that won’t respond to American law enforcement, self host, or use an anonymous payment method. @proton.me supports cash and various cryptocurrencies.

The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. In this case, the Proton Mail account was affiliated with the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF) group and Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing. Broadly, members were protesting the building of a large police training center next to the Intrenchment Creek Park in Atlanta, and actions also included camping in the forest and lawsuits. Charges against more than 60 people have since been dropped. Information the FBI received showed a specific person as the payment source for a particular Proton Mail account, the record shows. “On January 25, 2024, subscriber information received from the Swiss Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty Unit, revealed [full name] (SUBJECT) as the payment source for the Proton e-mail address defendtheatlantaforest@protonmail.com,” it reads. 404 Media is not publishing the person’s name because they don’t appear to have been charged with a crime, according to searches of court databases.

The document says the FBI believes that whoever manages the Proton Mail account likely has administrative access to the blog. The FBI received details about that Proton Mail account from the Swiss authorities via a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, or MLAT. An MLAT is when authorities in one country agree to provide information to an agency in another country. These are often used when the company or entity holding the information may only respond to local law enforcement demands for data.

Edward Shone, head of communications for Proton AG, the company behind Proton Mail, told 404 Media in an email: “We want to first clarify that Proton did not provide any information to the FBI, the information was obtained from the Swiss justice department via MLAT. Proton only provides the limited information that we have when issued with a legally binding order from Swiss authorities, which can only happen after all Swiss legal checks are passed. This is an important distinction because Proton operates exclusively under Swiss law.” Functionally, though, the material was provided to the FBI.

Important that people read the article & understand the mechanisms by which these things occur so they can determine their best options now and in the future (i.e., if the Swiss gov't ends the MLAT, the FBI will no longer have that avenue to collect this data. With today's USG, it is a possibility).

maybe if we kill a few more hundred children we can finally liberate them from their oppression

the whole framework of privilege can be weaponized in service of empire extremely easily; you have to always ask yourself which voices are you privileging and to what end?

or you could just uniformly oppose American military action and be right 99% of the time

hot take: if you're an American, this is not a nuanced issue. you do not need to "listen to Iranian voices" here. you need to tell your leaders to stop bombing a country and killing people. that's literally it.

you should educate yourself about history and politics for sure! but also: this particular issue is not complicated. we live in the machine that kills people outside of America and we need to stop it from killing more people.

He should have been killed by us.

May every dictator die at the hands of those they oppress.

Not to stan too hard for my friends, but this remains a top-of-all-time anarchist banner:

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

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David Lynch saying ‘One day, the sadness will end. But I don’t think today’s the day.’

A photograph of smoke rising over Tehran, Iran.

The Israeli and US attack on Iran is morally repugnant. It is calculated only to benefit an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers. It will not benefit Iranians or ordinary people anywhere on earth.

We must build the grassroots capacity to interrupt the war machine or things will only get darker.

An image of Donald Trump with the speech bubble "Stop me before I kill again"

As capitalist profiteering hits its limits, despots are returning to amassing wealth the old-fashioned way—by brutal state violence.

The economy has been sustained by the AI boom—a boom in military technology. From Caracas and Minneapolis to Tehran, we can see the future they are trying to create.

Against All Wars, Against All Governments The war with Iran will likely take a more diffuse form than the sort of conventional war that most people expect. An anti-war poster and analysis.

The hundreds of thousands senselessly slaughtered in Gaza, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq, and Ukraine show what awaits down this road.

The attack on Iran is an attack on all of us, on our ability to imagine a future without continuous wars benefitting a billionaire elite.

We must stop them or perish.

Do not forget the people of Lebanon either, who have been suffering the "preemptive" bombardment of Israel for well over a year and a half and are suffering it intensified tenfold today

An image of smoke rising from airstrikes in Tehran with the text "The attack on Iran is an attack on all of us."

For the Israeli government, the entire Mideast is the West Bank, now. This attack shows that they are determined to treat hundreds of millions the way they treat Palestinians.

In the US, Trump's decision to declare war without consulting congress shows that he already sees himself as a dictator.

the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes.

what could go wrong

Standard American diplomacy. American history is positively riddled with broken agreements and sneak attacks against non-white folk.

Another Trump sneak attack while pretending to want diplomacy. The media keeps falling for it.

Chef asking an American general "Have you ever heard of International Law?" The general replies: "I don't listen to hip-hop."

also rolling around my head just how much TV attention desert storm got, and how it seems to have convinced every government official - especially the most TV obsessed ones, natch - that any military action we take can be resolved in a snap and no amount of failures can dislodge this thought

Fascism with Reddit Tendencies

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

Maybe we should stop using the euphemism "defense contractor" since they are clearly not doing the job for the sake of defense.

My ex’s dad worked for Lockheed and she didn’t love that I always described him as being an arms dealer.

There is always a tweet.

Or a lot