While I hope that I’m wrong, there is at least a very real possibility that in the immediate future, the US empire will launch an unprovoked and immoral attack on a socialist state (Venezuela) in order to secure that country’s resources. It is understandable that, should that happen, many of you will be feeling extreme anger at these acts and post about it here.
In light of that, the admins and mods of Hexbear figured we’d remind everyone:
No fedposting
That includes, but is not limited to, talking about threats of violence against people or groups of people; including if you add “in minecraft” or “[redacted]”.
We really don’t need to come under fed scrutiny (or worse). Ultimately, fed posting doesn’t even serve much purpose other than “blowing off steam” – and that comes at the cost of potentially putting the site and its users in legal jeopardy. There are more productive ways to vent that anger.
Also, if you end up having a comment removed for fed posting, I’d urge you to not take it personally.
And saying this as a user, not an admin: a little revolutionary optimism never hurt anyone. We must have clear eyes about reality, but as socialists we also should have faith in the power of people to resist oppression.
(Edited for grammar)
I thought lemmy was safe in terms of legal issues? Who is going to give users’ ip addresses to the court?
ISPs. Unless TLS is broken they shouldn’t know who’s who tho.
Your phone, your browser, your isp, your neighbors phone, a dedicated chip on one of your devices we dont know about
We realistically have to assume everything is compromised is ways we can’t anticipate or evade
Almost every western country has a history of compelling website owners, or secretly seizing and controlling websites to log anything they want. So they only need to do that, start logging IPs, and the next time you log in job done. No website can really be inherently ‘safe’ in terms of anonymity from the legal system.
to be clear, both lemmygrad and hexbear are hosted on cloud companies in western europe, unless they have some weird reverse proxy thing going on i suppose. that means in the worst case scenario, the feds silently read all data going in and out of the servers and all the data on the servers and no one’s the wiser
EDIT: i dont think i should have been so quick to dismiss the reverse proxy thing tho. mao quote and all