Rednecks fought for the right to shoot an intruder in your house. It doesn't matter if he was stupid or guilty. He shot someone breaking into his house with his legally acquired weapons while a completely innocent man.
If that's no longer allowed then let's make it law. Because now, it's just hypocrisy
You know how in the USA you're supposedly innocent until PROVEN guilty? Yeah well being shot to death in your own house while being innocent in accordance of the law says you have no rights at all.
He could have been guilty. We don't know. He was never tried. He was executed in cold blood as an innocent man.
1000 upvotes for you. Someone with rational thinking that can see the hypocrisy.
Lower quality? Lol.
I'll give you a chance to look up the Mix Fold 3. And then any other equivalent phone available in the US market.
Even excluding the folding aspect, the screen sizes and overall thickness means it looks and works exactly like a non foldy. 50W wireless, 120W wired charging. 1TB of storage, 16GB of RAM. Leica lenses.
On top of that, zero of my data goes to the US government at it does on carrier branded phones. I will give all my data to the ccp if they want it. I have no interest in what they do with it. I have very high interest in what a five eyes nation does with my data and information.
Just to connect the dots for you, the US refused to sell Helium to Germany because of war sanctions. A beloved tool of the USA much more powerful today with global banking and the SWIFT network. Even though it was a civilian application, there were obviously some military uses and therefore blocked. That directly led to the deaths of everyone.
The SR71 is built out of titanium. The only supplier of titanium was the USSR. The USSR had sanctions against the USA for the same reasons. The US built fraudulent companies, forged paperwork and entire companies. They smuggled and stole and evaded the sanctions to get enough titanium to build the SR71.
Any US history about the SR71 tells it like a hero's tale. Having to outwit the bad guy for the greater good of the country.
Today, any nation that doesn't play ball with the US is blocked from global trade even if it means millions of deaths. Evasion of those sanctions by third parties is treated just as badly. And they get put on lists. The US is all about sanctions to control and talks about global law and order when it benefits them. But when they don't benefit from the sanctions, they have zero shame to evade them and brag about it.
There's a lot more, but that's a cursory look. If you've never ready the story of the SR71 acquisitions, it is an interesting read no matter what you think of the politics.
Love the Chinese phones. None of this crap US stuff is enabled. It's baked into the system ROM so it is there. But on mine it has never transfered any data, not even ever been active. It's just dead code taking up a few megabytes.
So what's your view on the SR71, specifically the titanium sourcing...
Sanctions are good except when I need them?
The minute there is a Hindeburg II, I'm booking a ticket and getting on it with my tailed tux and top hat.
America murdered everyone on it by refusing to sell the Germans Helium in the past. I'm sure today it will just be corporate greed because Hydrogen is so much cheaper. Same outcome. Get a picture on Wikipedia forever. Win win.
One reason I've stopped using reddit entirely. They require fingerprinting you. If you do a good job and they can't fingerprint you, you get that screen. It is NOT blocked by IP of the VPN as some here have said. You can easily see the content through the same VPN while not logged on as long as you have enough identifiable tracking information to reasonably guess who you are.
It's a great test now. If I'm ever let into view reddit now, I must have seriously screwed up somewhere in my security chain.
I'm not married to social media unlike yourself apparently.
And no. The US should have zero ability to arrest, and capture anyone not on their soil. The US engages in legal and ILLEGAL extradition. It also engages in the weaponization of systems such as Interpol and basic extradition. Claim 1 charge that is just alleged, extradite, then charge with different things that would have never allowed an extradition. The US is the world bully.
If the US wanted to try a cartel leader in abstensia, that's fine. It's like having an imaginary tea party. If that person never sets foot in the US, they should be fine. If the country they are in wants to prosecute them for breaking the laws of where they are, that's up to that country.
The US position is hypocrital. Anyone, everywhere in the world, is subject to US rules. Break any US law, and the US will prosecute you if they want to. Break a law outside the US, and the US can prosecute you in the US. And then the exact opposites, don't count. If the US does something outside the US area, it's not illegal. If the US breaks a local law, they claim it can't be touched.
You bring up Latin America and power vacuums that Cartel leaders have... You really should research WHY those leaders are there. The US purposefully interferes with their governments to keep those in power that are friendly to overall American interests. You know the same thing it's so indignant about because Russia is doing it now to the US... The term Banana Republic is literally describing what the US does to the region you bring up.
And why is the manufacturer the bad guy here? "Bad guy" has a company. He manufactures a product, and exports it. It is sold to customers to freely and openly buy it. The drug is controlled but available if you have the proper documentation. Remember your grandparents could buy fizzy drinks with cocaine in it just for kicks when they were a kid. They could buy medicine like a Nyquil with these opiodes in it too with no regulation at all. The concept of them being bad and needing regulation is very new. The customers today that buy the drug are committing a crime in their local jurisdiction. It is not a crime everywhere in the world.
The US has deemed the company owner a bad guy. And kidnapped him to try him.
A company makes a product. It's illegal where it's made, but due to financial bribery of the local government, it is allowed. This product is sold locally and exported. When it is purchased in an outside market it's black market and illegal and you can go to jail for it. The US says you can issue a warrant for the owner of the company, kidnap them in a paramilitary operation to your country, then throw them in jail for financial crimes because every dollar made from the illegal product is part of a crime. Do you only arrest the CEO? All shareholders? All employees? Distributors? The US says yes yes yes.
In that case, Ramon Laguarta the CEO of Pepsico should be thrown in jail in any European country. As would everyone who works for them or owns a share of the company. That's Vanguard, Black Rock, every KFC employee and hundreds of other brands, every grocery store and gas station owner, etc. Why? Because just pick one product. Captain Crunch. It's made with BHA which is a chemical for shelf stabilization. It is illegal in California. It's illegal in many countries, including many EU countries. It hurts people, it actually harms their health. The manufacturer and pusher of Captain Crunch gets a free ride, why? If France acted like the US he'd be guillatened tomorrow.
Anyways, it's obvious you are fully encapsulated by American propaganda if you can't see if basic hypocrisy. Murica always good. Everyone else always wrong. That's all the energy I'll be giving to this.
Because that's not how the law works. If the law was it's only illegal to kill 50 people, or even 25 people, then sure that's the bar. But in the US you get thrown in prison for 20 years for killing 1 person. You get thrown in jail for 20 years for accidentally killing, or not doing something to prevent a killing, or if you were part of an organized group that did commit such a crime.
To apply US laws equally, a supposed bastion of American democracy and justice, it's a very easy argument to make.
Also many people after the fake WMD scandal called for the US leadership to be tried. And the US very immediately said no, they don't try foreign government leaders and you can't try ours except in the world courts. Oh, and if you do try and convict the US in the Hague, the US has a law on the books now that allows it to invade the Netherlands sovereignty and break out their people. The court is only valid if not used against America!
This authorization led to the act being colloquially nicknamed "The Hague Invasion Act", as the act allows the president to order U.S. military action, such as an invasion of the Netherlands, where The Hague is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.
The US being one of the most warmongering nations in the history of the world needs to be held accountable.
Cool, so the US now completely accepts the ability to try foreign leaders and past foreign leaders in a domestic court versus before it having to go to the ICC/Hague.
So let's get Dubya (W Bush) tried for war crimes. And of course Cheney. And Obama for that matter. And Trump. And Biden. Heck most of the US leadership of the past many decades are guilty of breaching international conventions and aiding what are now terrorists. Remember who trained Osama Bin Laden??? Right to jail. Apparently.
Or are we still supposed to pretend that the rules only apply to others and that's not hypocrisy somehow...
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You can try but rarely is it successful unless you're a super popular influencer. If Mr. Beast came out with a platform and said use it, he'd get a million users in a day, all of them evangelizing to their friend groups and maybe it would take off. Otherwise you're just going to get ignored unless it's easy enough.
WhatsApp is easy enough and good enough. It is not the best solution, but part of its allure is that it is owned by a big corporation. Governments and billion dollar companies use WhatsApp as their backbone because it is big. They aren't going to roll their own.
And when someone is completely against WhatsApp... Why? If it's because you hate Zuck and Meta, then fine. Personal grudges are fine with me, but not a valid reason to dislike the platform for everyone, just yourself. The data that they get is who you are sending messages to, when, and the overall size. Everything else can be blocked. The content of the messages is secure unless you decrypt and backup elsewhere. One of my WhatsApp numbers is on a number from a VoIP line not even tied to my name or ID in any way. Meta collects information that I am talking to hundreds of delivery drivers arranging my deliveries. I'm ok with that.
They don't have any of my info. I don't have any social media accounts apart from Lemmy and a now retired reddit. Works well enough. And the older people can use it easily enough. Getting my mother to switch to telegram? Isn't happening. But WhatsApp... She's down for that.
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Not a defense of Meta, just saying what's used. And if the option is completely insecure SMS or RCS vs WhatsApp, WhatsApp is a clear winner. If you could push everyone to a better app like a signal or telegram, sure. But the world is on WhatsApp. And if you look at how hard it is to get Americans off of SMS or iMessage, that's the issue you have with now 2 billion people minimum to get them to use a better more secure platform. And their perceived benefit for that trouble is near zero.
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I'm not saying what is good to use. I'm saying what is used. Everyone from grandma to the local store. If you want to survive communicating, you need to use WhatsApp everywhere in the world except the idiotic USA.
I personally use other apps like signal and telegram, but I also have WhatsApp because I have to and it is convenient enough. I'm ok that Meta gets a bit of data showing the amazon delivery driver and I shared a message at a certain time. It's useless data.
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Anecdotally it's obvious everywhere you go. I travel all over the world often and it's always WhatsApp. The taxi drivers, the hotel people, everyone.
For actual studies I found a handful with a quick google that confirm it. Whatsapp reported 2 billion users in 2020. And then WeChat is the next which is China centric. Nobody uses standard SMS except Americans.
https://engage.sinch.com/blog/most-popular-messaging-apps-in-the-world/
I hope people will read past the propagandist headline.
The proposal, as it was last week, is essentially you Palestine give us everything we want and all your negotiating power, we Israel will stop murdering you for Ramadan, then we're back in force after regrouping and no more threat of bad PR for killing our own...
That's not a framework for a ceasefire or a peace deal. It also plays that Israel is ready for peace and it's Hamas holding it back as always. When you're not even close to an agreement of terms, and you "leak" such details, it's an obvious ploy for media attention that it has received and straight out of the propaganda playbook.
That's not hyperbole by the way. The IDF has one of the best "how to propaganda" books in the world that was developed with the US. It is freely available for anyone to read and talks about which words to use when. Which news to leak. How to frame negotiations to paint themselves positively while not allowing actual advancement. It's a great read for everyone to be aware of when they see these methods used all over the world as it is widely adopted now.
I actually really respect their policy. Keep the site active and then forgive stupid bills if there was an error.
To shut down or disconnect a cloud service is terrible as usually it's in error. The errs on the side of the user knowing their stuff better than the hoster which is what I want in a provider.
The more probable answer is that the NSA asked for the backdoor to be left in. They do all the time, it's public knowledge at this point. AMD and Intel chips have the requisite backdoors by design, and so does Apple. The Chinese and Russian designed chips using the same architecture models, do not. Hmmmm... They have other backdoors of course.
It's all about security theatre for the public but decrypted data for large organizational consumption.