Doing it for personal use, without profit or gain, is supposedly illegal. Doing it for profit certainly appears to be legal.

This is it.

It doesn’t have to be UU but you better find a team.

It’s completely illegal.

Who’s gonna do something about it? The FBI?

It’s really shocking to me, from the US, that this is a compulsory fee and not a tax. It’s like they want people to hate and resent it. I guess it hurts poor people? IDK.

They aren’t gonna beat up white people about this. not yet. It could be coming but it won’t happen yet.

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/459874481/Everything-I-dont-like-is-woke

But substitute in “racism”.

My man, very very little is being asked of you and your response is to lecture about how wrong the askers are in their asking. Are you going to be an ally to people in need or are you going to be an ally to whiteness?

You literally cannot.

This isn’t about you.

White people’s race does play into this, same as non-white people’s race does. If you’re white (passing) it’s unlikely the ice is gonna show up and throw you into a van.

Trying to make this about you is shit. Nobody cares.

They really want it we gotta fight them off. It’s tough because they have all the resources and institutional backing, but they are particularly stupid and inept so it’s not a foregone conclusion.

He literally bought the title of “founder” from the actual founders of the company. That’s… pretty ridiculous.

I do self host a bunch of stuff but i really don’t want to run my own email :(

A lot of Nazis were supposedly born in 1988…

But in this specific case, i believe him.

We need everyone, not just one person. Don’t get me wrong, what he did was praxis and it did have an effect. I don’t see that solving all our problems by itself, though. Diversity of tactics and all that.

They did delete the posts, at least. Not great but at least an acknowledgement that maybe this isn’t a good look for the company.

Ah, okay. That makes sense. (Fwiw I’ve seen fascist types use 88 and 1488 outside the US, too. “88” is technically German. It can have begin meaning outside the US/The West in general, though.)

I’d still go with proton over Google. Google is also on board with fascism. Maybe not as enthusiastic about it but I’m not sure that’s a difference.

That said, looking for alternatives may be good.

That’s naive. I’m not ditching proton yet, personally, but this does shake my confidence in them.

The Biden government was targeting them, though. Kind of. Various companies were facing challenges from the administration. I think the difference is: If they suck Trump’s dick enough he’ll leave them alone. Biden was less likely to do that. Or probably that’s their view of it, anyway. Somehow big business seems to view Trump as a “rational actor” while they view Biden as the opposite.

Something something TOS Mirror Universe episode…

…88 is a red flag. Generally that’s a bad number.