Feds always used ANY reason to justify what they do
Think of the children! We care so much about the children! (That we let get shot in school and don’t give free lunches to)
Catholic church rapes children for generations… limp dick state do nothing.,
Parent send a picture of a naked child to the doctor, picture gets uploded into google photos, scanned, flagged, some google brain dead wage slave calls police…
Welcome to America folks… proper people can rape your kids but god forbid you to seek medical attention 🤡
I wonder if Lemmy will be included. On the one hand we are tiny, but there are also a lot of extremists here so it’s enriched in precisely the types that they would most want to know about.
Everything posted on Lemmy is public though.
The content is, but the IP addresses used to interact are not.
And they’re more interested in matching up user accounts to people, and there’s no public link there unless you provide it.
Not a public one no, but instance admins can see it.
And what is to stop someone from hosting content - like an image - onto their personal server, then collect the IP addresses of everyone who visits? e.g. couldn’t you receive a message in your DM, and without being asked, merely viewing the (auto-loading!) image could reveal that it was your account (that the DM was sent to) that came from the IP address that the image hosting server recorded in the incoming traffic?
Maybe I’m wrong? But that’s what I fear.
Yeah, that’s certainly possible, and AFAIK Lemmy doesn’t really do anything to protect against it (they’d have to intercept any outgoing content fetches).
However, in order to do that, they’d need to make a honeypot account that posts to get that data. That’s a lot of effort for a border patrol agent to go through on a quick stop, so they’re probably only going to bother for specific targets. So unless you’re targeted, they’re probably not going to bother making an effort to gather that type of information. The big tech companies will just hand that data over (for a fee, of course), whereas the federated nature of Lemmy means your admin would need to do that, and I just don’t think that’s very likely.
That said, if you’re worried about it, practice good OPSec. Use a VPN, burner email addresses, and don’t post personal info (or if you do, post conflicting personal info as often as you post accurate info).
THIS is indeed the way:-).
That’s one of the reasons why I’ll never again visit the USA.
You wouldn’t download a migrant.
Of course they do. Holding someone’s leash it’s easier to control them and thus, among other things, prevent them from violating some rule.
Doesn’t mean all people need leashes and collars, except for private life.
Is this news for someone?
