Freedom of expression & communication are the first things to go when authoritarians advance their agendas…

90% of the time if I ask for help on forums the answer will be one of three things:

• Completely absent

• Just google it scrub lmao (nevermind the fact that search has gone to shit)

• Doesn’t actually answer the question

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The Islamist Ayatollah regime in Iran won’t be missed when it crumbles under its own brutality. It and its lackeys oppresses women and pretty much every conceivable minority they can reach.

You’re assuming that an antisemite would be thinking rationally. jew-hatred doesn’t tend to be based in rational thinking. Rather it is a basic expression of spite and vitriol. Being “pro-palestine” at the same time gives a convenient excuse to act out and a mass of people to hide amongst, emboldening the ones who otherwise wouldn’t dare.

In any case, I hope that’s enough to answer your original question.

Oh?

I don’t understand what kind of “peril” any random Jewish person might be faced with.

Are you jewish? Even if not, feel free to come here and just walk around a few days openly wearing any commonly known symbol of jewish ethnicity, culture or religion. After that, you will understand, if you aren’t stuck in a hospital bed, or worse.

As for the protests, not even that is necessary, even innocent bystanders (i.e not counter-protestors) have been hurt by activists (not that violence, IMO, is justified in general).

I avoid peril by taking precautions, suppressing that part of my identity, making it invisible to the public eye. The same way that my women classmates at university avoid peril by not being alone at night in certain parts of our city.

This is anecdotal, but anti-israel/pro-palestine actions near where I live have caused peril for people in general and jews in particular. They’re often arranged near synagogues and other places relevant to jewish diaspora communities.

I can go into more detail if you want, but hence the relevance for jews living outside of Israel.

If my commute to work for instance were to intersect with such a demonstration I’d do my best to plan another route, for my own safety.

I suspect that the OP is referring to pro-hamas and pro-hezbollah actions at the protest. Since both are terror organizations who not only have genocidal goals against jews and christian arabs, but also actively harm and oppress arabs in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

Probably because it affects jews outside of Israel?

Now that devices are starting to have built in features with AI automatically combing through all information on them, the idea of this sort of stuff being logged in the first place is concerning.

For instance, should someone prompting an AI to describe them beating up and torturing their boss be flagged for “potentially violent tendencies”? Who decides the “limit” where “privacy” no longer applies and stuff should be flagged, logged and sent off to authorities?

As I see it, the real issue is people being hurt, not text or fictive materials, however sickening they might be.

If the resources invested in spying on people and making databases were instead directed towards funding robust and publicly available psychiatric care I expect that’d be more efficient.

There is an armed conflict (usually described with the word war) between Hezbollah and Israel, which has been ongoing and escalating since October 8th, when the prior launched attacks against Israel in support of the Hamas attack on October 7th.

Hezbollah is conducting its warfare from territories considered part of Lebanon, but de facto militarily controlled by Hezbollah.

Israels declared intent is to fight Hezbollah, not Lebanon. As Hezbollah is not a sovereign nation, no declaration of war is necessary. (If the concept of an undeclared war is confusing to any reader, they should read up on it, most wars since WW2 have been undeclared)

The withdrawal of the Lebanese military where the IDF operates further indicates that this is not a conflict between Lebanon and Israel.

Long story short, this is a war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah where Israeli forces are invading.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/world/middleeast/lebanon-government-failure-israeli-strikes.html

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/lebanese-army-seen-withdrawing-from-positions-on-border-with-israel-sources/

I didn’t mind ads on YT back in the day when skipping was available right away, or after 3 seconds. That was a long time ago though.

Hmm…

I fundamentally dislike censorship and limitations of open communication. It’s a similar situation to X in Brazil, where the gov:t claimed they were “threatening national security”.

Peace and stability, however, destroy terror groups.

Which is precisely why Hamas escalated the Israeli-Palestine conflict last October. They were afraid that Israeli efforts towards fostering peace and cooperation with the other Arab countries were being successful.

Peace will be impossible to accomplish until the Middle-East at large accepts the existence of Israel, and Hamas have in turn proven that is impossible as long as militant islamist extremists with the primary goal of killing as many Israelis as possible (as opposed to securing safety, prosperity and freedom for Palestinians) rule in either of the two Palestinian territories.

Probably amongst the most impressive and precisely targeted strikes against a terror organization in history when taking the scale into consideration. Mossad is one of the most inventive intelligence agencies out there. They do not mess around.

If it is enough to dissuade Hezbollah escalating to an all out war in Lebanon, the few tragic collaterals pale in comparison to the number of prevented deaths.

Mint is a very nice starting distro tbh, it was my first too!

Accounting for taxes and grid fees, between 0.05€ & 1.2€/kWh depending on the season.

The court’s order for an injunction applies only to the sections relating to defining and reporting data on content violation categories. Social media companies will still be under the remainder of AB 587’s requirements, which include semi-annually creating publicly viewable reports to California on the current terms of service, how automated systems enforce the terms of service, how companies respond to user-reported violations, and what actions the companies take against violators.

Seems like the higher courts ruling is sensible overall.