I'm very familiar with how cops and FBI have gone after Stop Cop City protesters. It's a level of fascism that most of the country has yet to experience.
@protonprivacy effectively handing over credit card data of someone who has not committed a crime, makes them no different than any American tech company.
If you're familiar with Stop Cop City, then you know Proton put someone's life at risk.
https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
@protonprivacy how can Proton claim to be held to Swiss-only law, when the Swiss government isn't even held to Swiss-only law?
The FBI can, apparently, compel Proton to hand over any data they demand about anyone regardless if a crime has been committed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_legal_assistance_treaty
@protonprivacy was extra sleazy by invoking the shooting at a cop incident to justify handing over the data, as if the person in question was a suspect (they weren't).
In fact, this story of a cop being shot at was used to justify cops murdering a protester Manuel Paez Terán who was found dead with multiple gun shot wounds in his back, implying he was attempting to fee when murdered.
Proton out here acting like a cop. This is cop behavior. I don't do business with cops. Fuck Proton.
Also, notice how @protonprivacy claims a cop was "shot." Not even the cops' testimony claims this. APD claimed a cop was "injured." There was no bullet wound. But even that account is suspect since no gun powder was found on Terán's hands.
What we did find was 57 bullet wounds on Terán's body, and an autopsy report that showed Terán had their hands raised when APD opened fire on them. No body cam footage exists.
This was a cold blooded murder that APD tried to cover up
The Stop Cop City story is filled with bone-chilling state overreach.
APD and GBI tried (and failed) to charge an activist group with RICO. A SWAT team raided an activist's home, and arrested 3 on charges of money laundering.
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/
There's a recording of cops admitting to "going after their money." The activist group in question raises bail money for protesters. APD wanted to disrupt protesters' ability to legally defend themselves.
The more I think about it the more disturbing @protonprivacy's justification for handing over credit card data becomes.
By their reasoning, anyone who speaks out against our government is default suspicious and associated with crimes that may or may not have even happened.
Encrypt whatever you want, but if this is Proton's politics, then their tools are completely unsafe for anyone who dare question the US government.
And of fucking course @protonprivacy's politics are the centrist-y republican bullshit that plagues the tech community.
Goes to show: Whether they pretend to support Openness or Privacy, they're all just Republicans in All Birds. They don't believe in their website's marketing language.
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And forget Proton for a minute, as despicable as their actions are.
The FBI is using a 3 year old incident that ultimately led to the murder of a protester, as grounds for collecting private data from someone who's only connection to that incident is that they also oppose Cop City.
This is why I wince whenever I see photos of protesters posted to social media, or people RSVPing to protests. Our government considers you domestic terrorists no matter how much you "follow the rules".
There's this attitude on the left from people who believe they're the "good" kind of protestors. And that if they follow all the rules and be polite that they're exempt from state retaliation.
I saw a post here weeks ago that defended RSVPing to protests, saying "we should put our names on every list we can," and it's like no. No you shouldn't. If you believe that then you have a deep misunderstanding of our situation. Cops aren't carving out exceptions for the hall monitors of the resistance.
It's not *just* that Proton complied with the order (which is still unclear if they could've fought it).
It's that in Proton's defense of their actions, they implied that anyone who protests Cop City is automatically part of some terrorist group that shoots cops and blows things up with explosives.
It's Proton's very obvious politics of it all. It bends towards fascist-y sensibilities. Yuck. I'm so tired of giving money to these types of techno-conservatives pretending to be revolutionaries.
Okay okay rant over. Sorry I went extra hard on this. It's all just so disappointing.
You can leave corporate tech only to realize the alternative platforms aren't really fighting the good fight. It's all marketing by pacifists pretending to be revolutionaries.
The openness gang pretends they're fighting wall gardens. The privacy gang pretends they're fighting ad-tech. But it's all just a market position play. And all the founders are fascist-flirting centrists.
It sucks. They're all the same
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