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Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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> Yep, police can simply ask anyone for their passwords and if you don't give it up they can put you in jail. This is precisely the reason why I don't want to visit the US at the moment. The USA immigration officers can ask me to forfeit my phone's password and look at all my photos, documents, messages, call logs etc, WITHOUT SUSPICION. Some of that data can even stay on their servers for decades, and who knows if i…

At least you can walk in with a phone reset to factory settings, and once you cross the border restore from the cloud (or home server like me). In UK you can be stopped walking on the sidewalk. It's much more dystopian in UK.

There are no sidewalks in the UK, even more dystopian!

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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Or you could just choose not to use pornography. Then you don't have to verify your age to these websites. I get that some people have a behavioural addiction to this harmful content but perhaps the age verification is an opportunity to step back and reconsider.

Agreed. It's important to remain pure. I usually just use the Book of Mormon and that typically helps me get it done well-enough. But when that doesn't work, I allow myself some different material. The New Haven Code of 1656 is my reserve favorite and I have a laminated copy of the Comstock Act of 1873 on-hand for unusually-tricky edge cases.

Lamination guarantees re-usability.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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US now apparently asked your social media account including public access if you apply for a visa. Chinese don't care about that.

Well yeah, because they block outside social media networks…

The point is they don't care my yap on my social media unlike the other nation across the pond

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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Americans perception of themselves always baffles me. You have police brutality regularly, ICE raids shooting protestors and deporting people (inc those with the right to be there) to El Salvador, people who write critical articles of Israel denied visas, servicemen dying in the Middle East, your president openly stealing from your government via slush funds and his sons, and so little accountability that the only pe…

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> Every dumbass America bad trope is here.

Disregarding wealth inequality is the most trope-ey American thing you could possibly do.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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It's so surprising that despute so many screams "China" in western media in the last 15 years, it happens in the west, but in China it's free to use any OS without any negative consequences. Why? What's going on?

China has a whole other level of control going on. You’re free to use any mobile OS you want because they’re able to monitoring every internet connection, see what you’re downloading and block any and all content they deem unsuitable with no recourse. They can also arrest you and move you to a labor camp with little recourse. I’m not defending the UK police’s actions here but “it’s just as bad as China!” is a refrain…

Tbh I feel what you say it’s just to feel good about how bad our situation is. Oh, their situation is much worse, don’t worry about us, we are so much better.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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OI mate, you got a loicense for that operating system? The only surprising thing about this story is that the user didn't get a visit by the police to be charged with a "non-crime cybersecurity incident". The UK has become such a shithole.

Yep, police can simply ask anyone for their passwords and if you don't give it up they can put you in jail. I won't be visiting. Despite many flaws, the US has some damn good rights for its citizens compared to the rest of the world.

I’m sorry but your citizens are treated far worse by authorities than UK citizens and it’s not even close.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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Pretty sure the courts ruled it wasn't. But they're still arresting people for saying "I support Palestinian Action" in public.

In Queensland, Australia. Saying from a flow streaming of water to a large salty tidal body of water lands you a criminal record. Just the words. Same in Berlin.

Btw in Germany the courts ruled that From the river to the sea as parole itself is not unlawful. The arrested person got acquitted.

Hamas and its symbols are illegal however.

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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The right level of recording of non crime is zero wdym reduced?

If they're turning over all information the police have it makes sense this gets turned over... Or do you want the police to not have any record they spoke to you, so they'll come tomorrow and say the same thing again, and again, and again?

Metadata does not require data and conflating them doesn't help your point

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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There were four officers in attendance [1] and race guidance [2] that says, quote: > Our commitment to racial equity [...] does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind’ (racial equality). is currently under review as a result [3]. [1] https://theconversation.com/police-to-review-anti-racism-gui... [2] https://www.npcc.police.uk/our-work/police-race-action-plan/... [3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/a…

And what's your point?

You said one officer. There were four in attendance.

You're saying that allegations of two-tier policing are far-right disinformation. In fact, it is official policy, and the IPCC document leaves no room for interpretation on this.

Another user brought up Jean Charles de Menezes, a man killed in the wake of the 7/7 London bombings after being misidentified as a terror threat that should not be allowed on the tube. Ironically, that operation was overseen by a woman who went on to become the Met Police Commissioner, setting diversity targets that led to [1] (quoting Wikipedia):

> In January 2026, a Met Police review revealed that in an attempt to meet the diversity targets set by Dick, senior figures in the force had allowed recruitment standards to fall. More than 100 applicants who initially failed vetting procedures were later allowed to join after their cases were referred to a special panel set up to scrutinise rejected applications from ethnic minority candidates. Several of these went on to commit criminal offences or misconduct, including violence, sex attacks and drug use.

The rot is very deep at this point, and it's far too late to pretend it isn't happening. Your efforts would be better spent on arguing why the policies you support are a good thing.

The UK is already seeing a right-wing resurgence with the simultaneous collapse of Labour and the Conservatives, and rise of Reform and Restore. If the left fails to justify these policies to the masses, they'll be doing more for the far right than anyone on this forum could ever dream of.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/08/met-hired-child-...

Re: GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS

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Europe has many many different jurisdictions. Even if you take the European Union alone and ignore all the other European countries, the EU only legislates over a subset of things for member countries.

The EU has no sovereignty, countries (like Hungary and Germany) can openly disobey it and the worst they can do is kick them out of the EU

> the worst they can do is kick them out of the EU

As opposed to what? Armed invasion?

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