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Fanart made for someone not afraid to punch fascists (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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[–] 22 points 7 months ago (9 children)

I often wonder if DHS is aware of the threadiverse. I would assume so but who knows? At least I don't think our admins would cooperate with them for the most part.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    US law enforcement subpoenas data centers and servers often. For a physical server, the FBI will leave a windows sever running and gain access, if it is a Linux sever however, they will to confiscate the server. I'm not sure what they do for cloud hosted servers.

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    All the more reason to be on a non-US based server right now.

    Worth noting that a lot of their subpoenas are BS though and could be fought successfully. Big tech is too scared to do even minor things to protect their users because the regime will retaliate in other ways that could cost them money. Small hobby servers don't have the same avenue of attack, although they might be more vulnerable in other ways.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    This. I work for a tech company that unfortunately gets quite a few subpoenas, from little police departments to the letter agencies, and I have pushed back on subpoenas and warrants that I felt infringed on peoples rights and "negotiated down" the scope of them. If a company isn't willing to try and keep their users out of the legal crossfire they're cowards.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    A server in .au is still part of the 5 eyes, so...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    True... I guess I'm not too knowledgeable about the situation in Australia. How would the US approach them and what legal avenues for resistance exist?

    They're not a fascist government but they also don't seem to have the same free speech protections the US does. Not that that has helped us much,

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

    We can't spy on our citizens, we'll just ask our buddies to do it for us.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Spying is a bit different from being compelled to share data though. Probably everyone is vulnerable to secret surveillance, I'm not sure how to mitigate against that. But the information from such efforts will be more limited.

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