Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Post by cindyllm » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 5:04 PM UTC

sharts wrote: post #460

viktorcode wrote: post #76

> the app enables communication even during network restrictions and creates a substantial risk of misuse by anti-national elements, terrorist organisations, organised criminal groups and cyber criminals seeking to evade lawful detection and continue communication despite legally imposed restrictions. This mouthful boils down to exactly this: a form of communication not controlled by the government creates a risk for…

How can you vote out incompetence when only the incompetent gravitate toward controlling the levers of power?

Post by palmotea » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC

slopinthebag wrote: post #293

palmotea wrote: post #236

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> I wonder how long it's going to take until we have universal communication monitoring, including in real life. It's not an impossible technical challenge, it's just a question of time. Every spoken word recorded forever and scrutinized. After all forms of distant private communication fall, the spoken word will be the last one remaining. And all these arguments they're making apply to it, too. There's a lot that sc…

I think you should blame the existence of authoritarian governments and not the technology. Seems odd to give them a pass. It's like blaming the gun instead of the shooter, and nobody does that. Right?

Post by philipallstar » Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 1:53 PM UTC

soulofmischief wrote: post #459

philipallstar wrote: post #454

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I don't think it's everyone's job to do that, though. If an ideology is innately, for the last 1300 years, expansive, by military might or by population demographic change, you can't blame past grievances for that. It's just innate.

When you say expansive ideologies within the last 1300 years, did you mean religiously-motivated American colonial settlement, genocide and expansion under manifest destiny? Or did you mean religiously-motivated Israeli colonial settlement, genocide and expansion under Zionist doctrine? I just want to make sure I understand which expansive ideology we're calling innate, because again I know you are not claiming that…

Post by platevoltage » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 2:14 AM UTC

t0bia_s wrote: post #349

platevoltage wrote: post #272

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You vote against them when they're up for re-election. If they're not up for re-election, you vote against anyone who allies themselves with said person.

So main driver is frustration? Why not remove immunity to electorate and keep them responsible for their decisions? Or, even better, don't give our responsibility to uknown electorate at all.

Post by soulofmischief » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 3:07 PM UTC

philipallstar wrote: post #468

soulofmischief wrote: post #466

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Your only response is that I said "within" instead of "for"? You initiated discussion on a very serious subject. If you don't have the spine or ability to back up what you're saying and critically engage with responses, do yourself a favor and keep the cookie-cutter zealotry to yourself.

Neither of your examples were for the last 1300 years, so all your paragraphs are irrelevant.