• motionofethre@piefed.social
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    22 hours ago

    If it was e2e anonymous services, I would agree completely, however their policy indicates it’s different. They apparently selectively choose who and what to host. It’s not even clear it’s encrypted.

    I’m not arguing that they are guilty or bad, but rather that this is different from a bad actor using Proton over For.

    A/I merely selects and filters the individuals to whom the Services are delivered to in order to reduce the risk of violations of our policies. By preventively asking to submit a written statement of intents, we can evaluate the affinity of every Service request from potential new users before any account is approved; the aforementioned statements are always evaluated in person by an appointee of A/I and deleted right after the request process is terminated.

    Every written statement always undertakes a non-automated process of case-by-case examination, occasionally involving some follow-up questions and observations that the appointee will send to the requestor in dialogue via a dedicated webpage.

    https://www.autistici.org/who/policy

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      22 hours ago

      So they have a TOS like Facebook or any other large platform, and reserve the right to refuse service?

      Unless they’re knowingly doing business with a known convicted terrorist, I fail to see how this makes them a terrorist support platform.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah. I’m not suggesting TOS indicates guilt, but just the “I can’t control my users” argument is void.

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          21 hours ago

          They can’t control their users once provisioning them. Once again, this is not different than any local restaurant.

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          22 hours ago

          May I ask why FB, Twitter, etc. get protection from liability from 3rd party content under Section 230 of the Communications Act but these folks don’t? They both have a TOS and reserve the right to refuse service.

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            11 hours ago

            Epstein ring communicated a lot through Gmail for years and they still never went after those involved nor Google

            @[email protected] how would you explain Google still not being sanctioned based on your logic?

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            16 hours ago

            Capitalist business vs. anti-capitalist activism. What’s happening is repression by a capitalist state against antifascist organisation, nobody cares about laws.
            The antifascist structures can’t effectively work inside the rules of a system designed by and for capitalists and the law (in this case) does not exactly include foreign structures. The US (and its corpos) does all kinds of unlawful things outside of its borders, if you haven’t noticed. However, the law shields domestic corporations from foreign laws, as they are usually headquartered in the US and only need to adhere to US law as this is only applied domestically.