Internet Safety Tips

[DukeofCagliostro]

I love this man. Become ungovernable and protect your god given right to privacy. To all onlookers this is solid advice. God speed you mad bastard.

[Oh_God_Help_Me]

This you?

[ihatethisengine]

I hate you for this opinion.

[Johannes2262]

@Wintermote

And there’s one entity stalking literally everyone, and that’s the government, and they are not your friend. You shouldn’t make it easy for the government to stalk you. Assume your assigned FBI agent (AI) is automatically reading and archiving every gmail account, everything you’ve posted in discord, every video you’ve liked or watched on youtube, every private message and interest on facebook.

I’m not from america, I don’t care if the NSA knows which videos I watched, I’m not using facebook, I write nothing I wouldn’t want the NSA to know about on discord and I don’t have a gmail account.

@Wintermote

Think that’s impossible, outrageous, or difficult? They’re already doing it for advertising openly. They just don’t tell you the government has access to it all, and the government doesn’t openly tell you that they collate and organize the information they have access to either.

The NSA is no longer an open secret. It’s just open. Snowden exposed that yes, in fact, the government really IS spying on everyone, illegally, unconstitutionally, in every single possible way, and are absolutely using connections with private corporations to get data.

not my government

@Wintermote

Tyrants always want 2 things:

1. To control your access to information
2. To access all information about you

I don’t live in a banana republic with tyrants controlling my information

@Wintermote

The former CEO of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, made a $1000 political donation in 2008 supporting a bill in California against same-sex marriage - something that, in 2008, was a position almost everyone on all sides in American politics had. This political donation was used, 6 YEARS LATER, as the pretext to oust Eich from his position as CEO of Mozilla.

So according to you disallowing same-sex marriage is right because “almost everyone (evidence where?) considers it right”?

@Wintermote

I share this fact because it makes absolutely clear - no, you cannot just be “a well adjusted person” and expect to be free of harassment; in 5 or 10 years, what “a well adjusted person” is, can completely change. Your words can and WILL be used against you by someone with political power for their own benefit - So do not assume that just because you aren’t rocking the boat today, that you’ll be fine later.

According to you, the average well adjusted person in 2008 thought that interfering with who other persons marry was right?

@Wintermote

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

Average private television talkshow?

[PWNRA]

I have never disagreed with a lot of your stuff but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh beyond making it more difficult (do not pay a VPN who gets your money for consolidating your data) I do disagree on grounds of relevance

[ihatethisengine]

@Johannes2262

So according to you disallowing same-sex marriage is right because “almost everyone (evidence where?) considers it right”?

Point is conjuncture, something that deemed normal or even approvable now can turn unacceptable in the future. End of history will never come.

Also, even Obama was against same-sex marriages, so the point is very accurate. Things change very swiftly and no one can guarantee you won’t get punished for your views (however progressive they are, maybe we all be living in the fourth reich in 10 years and supporting same-sex marriages will be a crime) in the future.

[DukeofCagliostro]

That was the prevailing view in 2008 in the US.

[Lichen]

Acid Goop post about how CM players dont take many anti-doxxing precautions → Gay Marriage discussion

the Slippery Slope of CM Forum Discourse™

[PhantomEpicness]

if someone doxxes you just thank them for reminding you of your address

[DukeofCagliostro]

Tally hoe lads

[Johannes2262]

@lichen, now that your ckey is public again, won’t that allow me to dox you after getting robusted by you in-game?

[ihatethisengine]

good job doxxing their ckey :\

[Lichen]

oh thats cool! as soon as I post about an ability to increase your privacy and security… they fucking remove it. best part: you arent warned that your ckey isnt going to be made public when making the account and there are 0 options to remove it now and you cant even delete your forum account

we love to see CM caring about user privacy after the host gets doxxed!

[Lichen]

@harryob @Frozentsbgg

why were all privacy options removed directly after I made a post about them being avaliable

[Johannes2262]

@harryob, @frozentsbgg, @forest2001 the performance-increasing option was removed after that post as well, what’s going on?

[Lichen]

they removed the option to have the background that was destroying the performance, its now permanent good performance

[ihatethisengine]

harry had his revenge on you after you discovered his crypto mining farm on the forum’s background.

[harryob]

@Lichen

why were all privacy options removed directly after I made a post about them being avaliable

this was nothing to do with me, i’ll pass your ping along to who it was

@Johannes2262

the performance-increasing option was removed after that post as well, what’s going on?

like lichen says, the background is just not starry anymore. so the option is redundant

[Wintermote]

Privacy for staff, no privacy for you

[SortieEnMer]

NOTHING TO HIDE NOTHING TO FEAR SON