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This was mentioned in the article from yesterday, https://theintercept.com/2023/02/14/whistleblower-image-crop...

> It might stun you to learn that the US is part of the west and isn't blocking RT. Golly gee, you sure got me there on that! Let's rephrase to "parts of the West", what impact doe…

> I'm in the US That's great. The block is in the EU. Which is in...the West.

Sure: RT- Russia Today English RT- Russia Today UK RT - Russia Today Germany RT - Russia Today France RT- Russia Today Spanish Sputnik’ Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont…

I'm so tired of "whataboutism" being used to as some attempt to shut down an argument. It is perfectly valid to point out hypocritical arguments. And it might stun you to know that…

> The great firewall of China prevents most of their citizens from seeing news that isn’t the party line Totally not like how access to Russian news outlets has been blocked by par…

You should not. But if it makes you feel any better, Americans do the same thing by allowing Chinese tech like Zoom and TikTok operate in their country.

Lockdown is literally presented by Apple as being for people targeted by APTs like those developed by NSO Group, therefore I expect it to prevent attack vectors used by these APTs,…

> "What constitutes an enterprise that should be allowed to have 'enterprise apps'" Apple has a list of requirements - https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/ - for exampl…

> Running an enterprise app still is not a trivial single tap on iOS. Yes, but still successful, as Hermit demonstrated. So my question is whether Lockdown mode would have prevente…

> High-level targets (for whom this mode is specifically advertised) are likely aware of the dangers of installing apps. I firstly don't believe this is true at all, plenty of high…

> So this would have prevented Hermit as you'd need to install a new configuration profile to allow sideloading of applications from that source. Are you sure that's true? I haven'…

It's not clear to me if Lockdown Mode would have prevented Hermit, the latest mobile APT which targeted iOS via sideloading by enrolling in the Apple Developer Enterprise Program. …

Wanted to say thank you everybody for your nuanced responses, this has helped me understand the issue better.

> You can't take back someone's education Sure you could, you could rescind someone's diploma so that they no longer have the degree.

> How failure to generate income on their degrees is a lender's problem? Clearly,there is an issue with inflated costs of getting a degree and finding a job with a low-demand degre…

An overworked population is precisely the one that needs thought-provoking cinema.

The only winning move is not to play.

Yes, this is by design: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1369357 Privacy is at odds with usability, sometimes.

> In practice, more details would be useful. More details (the lists of whitelisted fonts per OS) are here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336208

You can create a separate Firefox profile to effectively use as your PDF reader application.