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  • The number of manipulative, disinformation posts on lemmy is too damn high

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  • I think you're missing the point of the post. Or maybe the personal insult is the action of a bot to encourage other personal insults against me as a form of manipulation of others to build a group against me?

  • The number of manipulative, disinformation posts on lemmy is too damn high

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  • Regarding pointing out examples of posts made by bots, that is just a waste of time! No one will know for certain, people will argue, those bots will argue, other bot accounts with the same agenda will argue, people will be manipulated, they will argue, and status quo returns...

    By talking about 'anything of substance' is being framed by the bot posts, repeatedly, to manipulate. But, take a step back and you'll realise it really isn't 'anything of substance' but something to distract.

    As for the early internet, I think you're thinking about early pre-banhammer-FBI-raid 4-chan.

  • The number of manipulative, disinformation posts on lemmy is too damn high

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  • Just to be clear, I'm not accusing lemmy (whoever / whatever that is as a 'thing) of adding messages, but bad actors are doing so to control the short-term narrative for (perhaps, mainly) capitalist reasons.

    Kinda like propaganda gone wild. A Cambridge Analytica's former employee book, mindfuck is a good read.

  • Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

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  • I wonder how many people around the world are laughing at USA right now.

  • Germ-theory skeptic RFK Jr. goes swimming in sewage-tainted water

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  • Stop calling everyone a “skeptic” and call them what they are: deniers idiots.

    FTFY!

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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    1. no they weren't. no moving of goalposts
    2. what's my number then?
    3. amazingly not stupid. dunning kruger and all that.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • signal accounts... signal accounts everywhere!

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • perfect for the everyday user

    ...because of course, they don't need privacy, do they now. "Nothing to hide" and all that jazz.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • But like TOR, can entry / exit nodes be used to tie the two ends together through e.g. timing attacks?

  • Press Conferences

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  • I sure it's possible if an African/Hawaii resident/American person can.

    Mr Blobby has no nationality though.

  • Press Conferences

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  • Mr Blobby wouldn't take any shit.

    Did you know Noel Edmonds believe(d?) that cancer can be cured by positive thoughts?

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • The messages are private and that’s what’s most important.

    No, that isn't true. WhatsApp has the same lies. Law enforcement connect communication between users at key times and use it as credible evidence. Why would drug exporter 1 be communicating with drug buyer 1 at the exact time the delivery arrives in the country? Law enforcement doesn't need to know what was written.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • Phone numbers are one way. Paid accounts are another.

    Rubbish. How would this stop bots? Bots are created to make money. What makes you think creators don't have a phone number, or be prepared to pay to spam.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • huh? so the phone number is encrypted in a way that can't be read, but an sms is sent to the phone? ... a separate company sends the text on behalf of signal? so that separate company logs the phone number, the timestamp and who knows what else.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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    1. yawn, vpns are a thing and strawman argument. point?
    2. my number is private. point?
    3. bs. spam is easy to detect across a large number of accounts using simpleheuristics. point?

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • But the police request the meta data of all messages from your phone number that the company has and they're required by law to give them it.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • This is what the UK police do with WhatsApp data. Even though they can't read the messages, they do use the connections of messages to suspicious characters as evidence including date and times, which also puts these other people in the spotlight, opening further investigations.

    The UK police can also use 'stinger' devices that are "fake" mobile data towers to intercept mobile communications.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • opening the discussion again is just tiring.

    so tiring that i opened it and read it, then typed a long response.

  • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • ... but why require numbers in the first place.