Other countries memorializing US atrocities against their own people have a set of numbers too: 24/7/365.

Never forget 24/7/365.

Absolutely! The joke is that "freeze peach" sounds kind of like "free speech," so it's become a meme to mock the (usually far right) people who claim that freedom of speech should be upheld at all costs, including human decency, and that things like racism, sexism, LGBTQ+ phobia, hell even full-on Nazi propaganda should be unrestricted on the internet.

Lemmy.world seems to have been designated the Reddit replacement. Makes sense lol

Button meme:

1. Free speech must be upheld at all costs

2. If you say you support Russia you should be killed

OooooOOOooooOoooOOo spooooky!

Remember: the corporate meetings and university lectures are the tip of the iceberg of the kind of data Zoom has on people.

Zoom is used by teenage couples to call each other and hang out, which might turn into discussing sexual themes as teenagers dating often do.

Zoom is used by general-care doctors when their patients describe the rash on their anus.

Zoom is used by psychiatrists and therapists talking to their patients during some of the most vulnerable and precarious times of their lives.

Zoom is used by lawyers talking to their clients in all kind of cases, criminal, civil, divorce/family, inheritance, etc.

Zoom was used by actual fucking courts to hold actual fucking criminal trials. Like bruh the fucking US judiciary department couldn't have self-hosted one of the many open source and E2EE solutions?

The fact that they can do this with no oversight or regulatory bodies intervening is utterly ridiculous. Zoom has probably some of the most sensitive data of people's lives. It is not a social media platform where people know that they shouldn't put too sensitive information on, it was literally intended and marketed for people to use for sensitive communications. They shouldn't even be keeping any amount of data after the call ends, IMO, but using it to train an AI (to presumably sell later) is utterly morally bankrupt, and so are the regulatory agencies and lawmakers who could have intervened. Fuck you Zoom, fuck you FCC/FTC/whoever handles data privacy in the US. You want to ban TikTok because of its "national security implications" but don't bat an eye when it's a US company doing something far worse huh? Not implying I like TikTok, but TikTok doesn't have access to live court trials or doctor-patient discussions.

Yes, we shouldn't have used Zoom in the first place. But that ship has sailed and most people were forced to use it against their will if their company/university/doctor/lawyer/judge decides to use it, and/or they did not realize the terrible data security/privacy implications of using it. It's entirely unhelpful to victim blame and go "well you shouldn't have used Zoom then! Sucks for you" as I see so many people in the FLOSS/privacy community doing. Additionally, that also does not address the actual societal/legislative issues of them being allowed to keep that information and use it for profit.

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It's one of the hollow letters used in math.

Basically what I'm saying is math should sue him.

Instead of them paying you in company currency and owning the stores that accept that currency, they (the rich oligarchy) pay you in regular currency but own basically every store.

It's a mining town scaled all the way up, and we're in it.

they claim that the word "disagree" is banned on Chinese social media.

How the fuck do people fall for this kind of shit when it's so easily disproven?

Translation into Chinese from https://translate.alibaba.com/ -- Disagree -> 不同意

I will now apparently commit thoughtcrime: https://s.weibo.com/weibo?q=%E4%B8%8D%E5%90%8C%E6%84%8F

Will update if I get a knock on the door from the seeseepee overseas police that's apparently already in Canada where I am, or if my family in China are threatened. Or if I suddenly stop posting, I guess I'm already in one of the Xinjiang camps by then.

I actually became communist through a similar path. On Lemmy no less.

"Authoritarian" really has no meaning anymore.

Fascist does though. He's fascist.

I have strong but critical support for the Scientist Rebellion, which is campaigning through civil disobedience for serious action against climate change and treating it like the existential threat it is. They're definitely getting attention and traction, and it's pissing off the Western powers beautifully.

Also, Libre software and hardware and the abolishment of copyright and patents in general.

The US "school to prison pipeline" has a double meaning:

1. Schools in the US do not adequately prepare children for society, and as a result many fall into poverty and turn to crime to survive.

2. Children in US schools are literally treated in a way that takes many elements from how inmates in US prisons are treated.

Nah the title is accurate. Because, as we all know, everything bad in East Asia is China's doing. No exceptions. Ozone depletion? China. Korean War? China. Vietnam War? China. Nuking Japan? See, a common misconception is that Oppenheimer invented the nuclear bomb, but it was actually Mao Zedong, and he forced the Americans at gunpoint to take credit for its invention and so far only two uses in war.

"Tankies can suck a dick"

Yes we can, and we think that's perfectly okay if it's between consenting adults.

It took a Swiss intelligence report?

Reparations would be more palatable if they were disbursed to the lower classes without regard for race.

As in, socialist redistribution of wealth?

I remember someone once posted a list of all the human rights abuses the APA (American Psychological Association) has engaged in? I remember it definitely included claiming both homosexuality and gender dysphoria as mental diseases requiring involuntary "treatment," but I think there were several other ones too.

Anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link?

The "Xi got butthurt and banned all of Winnie the Pooh in China" thing is mind numbingly easy to disprove. Just search the phrase on literally any Chinese internet service. If they still spout that claim, they've obviously not done even one minute of research or fact checking and are so clearly just blindly regurgitating propaganda (which they also accuse people who support China of doing, funny how that works) that all of their opinions on China can be safely ignored.

You know what I did when I first heard that claim? I went straight to Baidu and searched up Winnie the Pooh, in English even, and surprise surprise it returned results like any other search engine. And this was when I was still a liberal who didn't like China.

Still no response from people like this to https://native-land.ca/