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0 pointshinkley8mo ago0 comments

I have a little, maybe enough to be dangerous. SSH won’t be sufficient to avoid all traffic analysis. Everyone can see how much traffic and the pattern of that traffic, which can leak info about the sort of things you’re doing.

If you’re worried about ending up on a list, using things that look like VPNs while the VPNs are locked down is likely to do so.

Also… your neighbors in Myanmar didn’t do a lockdown during the genocide and things got pretty fucking dire as a result. People have taken different lessons from this. I’m not sure what the right answer is, and which is the greater evil. Deplatforming and arresting people for inciting riots and hate speech is probably the best you can do to maintain life and liberty for the most people.

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logicchains8mo ago

>Also… your neighbors in Myanmar didn’t do a lockdown during the genocide and things got pretty fucking dire as a result

The genocide in Myanmar was incited _by_ the government there; giving it more power to censor it's citizens' communications would have done absolutely nothing to help the people being genocided. Genocides don't just suddenly happen; the vast majority of genocide over the past century (including Indonesian genocides against ethnically Chinese Indonesians) had the support of the state.

hinkleyOP8mo ago

This has been simmering for a very long time. The first I heard of it was violence that broke out after the defacement of a Buddhist temple statue. That would have been almost 20 years ago. Buddhists murdering people tends to lead one to ask a lot of questions.

At that time I think the government was hands off, let it happen rather than tried to stop it.

Regardless of who was behind the violence, the whole region has thought about what to do in such situations and they aren’t the same answers the West would choose.

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