Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

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We want privacy but not that much (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was posting some comments on Reddit, in the "Privacy" subreddit, about better privacy options than Android or iOS—like GrapheneOS. I just received a message from the bot deleting my posts that mentioned GrapheneOS or other privacy-friendly operating systems. I accept this, since I'm not the owner of the subreddit. But with all due respect, what's the point of having a place to discuss privacy if comments recommending great privacy-focused OS alternatives get deleted? I don’t get it.

It seems like people in that community want privacy, but apparently not enough to have an open discussion about alternatives. Sure, some people might disagree—that's normal in any discussion! Should we stop talking about the NSA because some people support what they do? I doubt anyone would suggest that.

Am I missing something here? Maybe I just don’t understand the reasoning.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I got perma-banned and modmail-muted for talking about the rule, not the OS itself. The moderators are a bunch of absolute fucks and don't give a single shit either. I did not break the rule, but got perma-banned. Then got perma-banned from Reddit for "ban evasion" because I messaged the moderators about my wrongful subreddit ban. My appeal was denied. Fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're as crazy as Musk. My whole household got permabanned because we used the same device for our accounts, and one person was suspended for some reason. They then accused us all of ban evasion and permanently banned us all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

its such shit honestly.