You need to read the article. It explicitly and IMO satisfactorily answers your excellent questions.

It’s an atrocious system, innocent people get killed every year over it.

So Protonmail was required to log the IP of the user after being ordered to via the proper international Swiss legal channeks, per Swiss/Europol law. And at some point recently, Protonmail thus removed the copy from their frontpage that advertised never tracking IPs.

What the article doesn’t really explain, is what exactly changed about Swiss or euro law? And when? What rules or acts have sprung up that made this possible? Or, was this always something that was possible that has only just now made precedent?

It’s important to hold accountable the named individuals who are harming individual security, safety, and trust in this manner so that they can be prevented from continuing to do so.

Cory Doctorow is right. Canada shouldn’t enact retaliatory tariffs against us. That’s just stooping to our level, hurting both Americans and Canadians even more. What Canada should do is repeal any and all laws that were passed merely due to the pressure of potential tariffs from the US if they didn’t.

Like international any-piracy laws. Like anti-right to repair laws. DMCA clone laws around the world were passed at the threat of US tariffs, and now our load is blown. Let Canadians copy and pirate US-owned media without the US media companies being able to do fuckall about it. Let Canadians create companies that export repair guides and kits for locked-up systems like John Deere tractors.

DC would like to have a word.

My buddy in rural New York got junk mail addressed from Erika Kirk today, trying to milk her husband’s death to stir up violent fervor through the postal system. Fascists are so fucking pathetic.

Fool! That isn’t a cake!

It’s a lasagna.

It’s more about control than it is about productivity. Has been for a long time.

Happy to say that I’ve never used Spotify outside of closing the tab when I accidentally click a link that sends me there.

Literally no one said they were. You’re arguing with your own assumptions. You gotta ease up. Chill.

Bruh ease up.

Bruh ease up.

Thanks, this comment is infinitely more helpful than the useless snot who replied in the other comment. I like people who help others a lot more than people who randomly hurt others over nothing more than their own insecurities.

No no it’s always a choice available to you. It just comes with criminal consequences.

Or at least, it’s supposed to. Liberal politicians who want to show their constituents that they’re willing to ask the fascists hard questions aren’t impressing me at all if they’re unwilling or unable to follow it up with legal teeth. Might as well be helping them by handing them a soapbox they can shout anything from.

I always thought that refusing to answer congress or senate’s questions in a hearing was a contempt charge…

So the whole “recalling all the generals home for a big meeting” was just “this could have been an email” media bluster.

Alright then, I understand what you mean. And tbh I tend to agree on an emotional level. It’s just that “He should have been taken down by a good guy with a gun immediately” doesn’t exactly communicate that nuance, ya know?

Most responsible gun owners understand why shooting this guy in this moment would be a huge mistake and are devoting an outsized chunk of their patience to tolerating the people demanding to know where was the good guy with a gun was.

Not at all surprising.

For anyone here unaware, individual school superintendents all over the nation are more often than not hostile to the teachers that they manage. It’s pretty much par for the course. They are almost always MBAs with zero education background or training, generally hired into the position by anti-education school board members who they are personal friends of. Their only real training is in cost-cutting. They do not understand or appreciate the idea that public services don’t make money.

The pipeline goes: Candidate board members use money and influence to rile up conservative voters to get them onto school board -> Once on the school board they hire their MBA friend to the superintendent role -> school board member then continues to use bully pulpit to scare away incumbent challenges and demonize the district’s most valuable teachers. Very often there is also an element of retired cops in the PTA lubricating the whole process. That’s what a lot of suburban cops do after they start collecting their pensions, part-time volunteer teacher harassment.

This is like, the CORE Moms for Liberty playbook, and the main reason why it is so incredibly crucial to vote in your local school elections. It’s where democracy starts, it’s where individual votes have the most outsized effect on outcomes. So long as the community can be made aware of the issue and motivated to go to the polling place, the process can always be stopped. But somebody in the community needs to be doing that motivation. Why not you? They are SO WEAK, if only you just push back.