Maybe they’ll finally fix their bugs!

🤔

The illusion of choice

A lot of “normal” dating apps are also owned by the same companies

Use Signal or SimpleX for more private stuff like this 👀

Not sure killing civilians is the way…

Uyghur genocide is misinformation? 🤦

Good old genocide denying.

ofc they’re here on their own will, and definitely not being brainwashed and forced to work. all good

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

I disagree. You can always aim to be neutral, stick to the facts, and not favor a specific side. You’ll never fully achieve it, but you can come close to it.

There’s small bias, and will to have neutrality; and then there’s blatant bias and censorship. We’re in the second option here.

any opinion or viewpoint can be an echo chamber

Saying terrorism is bad is a standard viewpoint, but people that are into it are often in a complete echo chamber

Sure. China bad, USA bad, Russia bad. So? Doesn’t make my criticism invalid, nor misinformation.

There’s just a biased moderation that censors people that have strong takes against some countries.

I got temporarily banned for a month indeed, but what does that change? Not a lot in my opinion. I won’t be going back anyways.

Why do I need to explain my reasoning when it’s pretty well known that China isn’t the best place to live for human rights? On the other hand, I get banned with no explanation, apart from a “Don’t be rude” rule, like what??

Companies censoring speech isn’t the same as a country censoring speech. As far as I’m concerned we still have some sort of freedom of press. Btw, where did I say the USA was perfect? I would put it in the bad countries for human rights due to how they treat non-US people (you probably know the many wars/conflicts they’ve been into and how they feel like they have every rights on other territories like how Isreal was created, or that they can kill civilians in military operations).

Surely the political opponents in Hong Kong are fine and not persecuted as well.

From the little I’ve read about the report you sent, which I don’t have the time to read rn, but might later, I saw multiple things like acts of “disruption of social order” can be considered as terrorist activity. We know that in countries with strong control of the government like China, “terrorism” is often used to justify repression against political opponents. It’s even stated in the report (didn’t saw that it was as I was writing this)

However, again, a number of the activities listed remain stated in vague and/or subjective terms without further clarification as to the content of what these may encompass, e.g., “disruption of social order and other serious social harm”.

What I’m reading is a lot of bad things. The report is rather incriminating.

It becomes unhealthy when there’s a lot of biased instances, which I feel like there is currently

If you’re into political censorship and echo chambers, good for you. I value free speech, debates with diverse opinions

Said China doesn’t respect human rights because they’re doing a Uyghurs genocide, got banned from [email protected]

Yea, China #1, we love that they spy on their citizens, and don’t have freedom of speech

Not audited sadly

Any political instance is cringe

And lemmy.ml communities are often managed by pro-communists and they don’t like if you don’t trash talk capitalism as much as they want you to

That’s a sad part of Lemmy

Source? Afaik there’s no backdoor in their cryptography, except maybe if using the cloud to back up your chats?

Haven’t done it myself yet! I’m planning to switch to Linux Mint later this year, and have a dual boot with Windows on the side, so I can switch at any time if needed.

I think it has a built-in dual boot feature:

I advise backing up your harddrive and stuff to prevent problems, or having one for Windows and the other one for Linux so you avoid problems. Credits here: https://opensource.com/article/18/5/dual-boot-linux#Ubuntu

I have no experience with this yet, always double verify! I think Mint uses GRUB

Arch linux also has a more in depth post on this