I guess the narrative is that the US (the most powerful country in the world) cannot compel El Salvador (the country they are paying) to release the prisoners they sent there.

In other news, up is down

I signed up for Proton prepaid a while ago and decided the best way to cancel payments was to simply use a masked card with a purchase limit on it. Big mistake. When my paid period ended and a second transaction failed to go through, Proton simply locked my account and all its emails until I prepaid again. I did so, and then I immediately canceled further payments.

Another?!

We all (sort of) have Mastodon accounts. At least it’s possible to @ people on those servers from here.

FWIW the person removing stuff on Reddit is also a FOSStodon moderator. This might be worth bringing up to the admins there.

It’s part of a broader trend that I’ve been recording and posting about. tl;dr it seems to be a blanket mandate that US institutions and billionaires are above criticism

• DHS allows surveillance based on sexual orientation. Reddit’s privacy moderators ban any mention of it
• r/privacy moderator censors criticism of CEO James Dolan
• r/privacy moderators blacklist German tech news site Heise, censor posts critical of DHS
• On Reddit’s r/privacy, you can no longer criticize Facebook

In part, because one of the fucking Reddit moderators is now also a FOSStodon moderator, and I think FOSStodon admins might appreciate seeing a pattern of bad behavior

Here are the sources for the DHS allowing surveillance of minorities:

• DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity: Advocate
• DHS Scraps Ban on Surveillance Based on Sexual Orientation: Bloomberg Government (paywall)
• Direct link to the field manual per one redditor

Carrotcypher is one of the moderators of the FOSStodon server… To keep this more related to privacy and not bad moderation, I’ve added more details here.

Carrotcypher is one of the moderators of the FOSStodon server.

https://hub.fosstodon.org/team/

Carrotcypher also moderates over 50 other subreddits, and is often the top active moderator on them. Here are some of those subreddits, from most to less popular:

• r/opensource
• r/OSINT
• r/tails
• r/signal
• r/opsec
• r/KeepOurNetFree
• r/Mastodon
• r/Infosec
• r/europrivacy
• r/netneutrality
• r/snowden
• r/foss
• r/SimpleXChat

I presume the FOSStodon admins, as well as some of the moderators in the subreddits that aren’t fully taken over, are not aware of this activity.

Here are some other assorted notes:

• Here’s the same moderator on r/Mastodon, which they moderate, complaining about people who don’t like Elon Musk.
• Here is the moderator endorsing a law that forces teachers uncloset transgender children.
• Here is the moderator defending the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil

I’ve got a few posts you might find interesting, trying to establish evidence of a broader pattern before presenting it

r/privacy moderator censors criticism of CEO James Dolan

r/privacy moderators blacklist German tech news site Heise, censor posts critical of DHS

On Reddit’s r/privacy, you can no longer criticize Facebook (you already saw this one)

My only regret with making this post is I did not mention James Dolan specifically. Fuck him.

If the moderators aren’t capable of handling this amount of work, they should divest themselves from the communities they volunteered for. Especially if their leisure time on Reddit is spent losing arguments to other people on subreddits they run.

Now, or after a couple more posts? I have commented about this moderator’s political attitudes elsewhere but I still have a bit of a backlog of posts to release info about.

They also ban criticism of the US government, US billionaires, and Israeli spyware… I sure can fault them for doing this

https://lemm.ee/post/59706303

Yep, Carrotcypher is in the mod list.

https://hub.fosstodon.org/team/

I presume the admins just don’t know about this. They also moderate over 50 subreddits, including the Mastodon one. They tend to be the controlling moderator, or the top moderator that is regularly active.

Doing my best to compile more content about it…

Oh yeah, there’s more where this came from. I’ve got a little backlog of content

How does this affect people who upgrade? They just have Firefox plus a second browser?

I think the purpose is to find a source of revenue so that they don’t have to ruin their product. There’s a lot of potential good here, in addition to the unfortunately undeniable potential bad.

Maybe this was an Elon Musk requested feature