In the last year Google has banned: the Element app, the LBRY app, and several Fediverse apps. If you get all of your apps from a single corporation, be it Google or Apple, you should make an effort to change that.
If you have an Android phone F-Droid is an alternative app repository, and it’s very easy to install! All of the previously mentioned apps have been available from F-Droid throughout being dropped from the Play Store.
If you have an iPhone, please consider other options for your next device. Apple does not respect you enough as a user to consider you possibly more capable of deciding what you should install on your phone than they are. That is absurd; please stop rewarding this behavior with your money.
The #matrix client #element was removed from the Google Play Store, I read on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25964226
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RT @element_hq@twitter.com
Google have suspended Element in the Play Store without notifying us; we're reaching out to find out what's going on. Apologies for the inconvenience; in the interim there's https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/ but it's a few versions behind. We'll post updates here.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013
#element has just been suspended from the Google PlayStore !
@matrix
See : https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1355290296947499013?s=20
Google pulled element, the popular app with E2EE off the play store. Unlike most of these chat apps element can's censor what their users see because users can host their own infrastructure (sans push which is required to be run by the organization pushing the app to the app store due to an arbitrary rule.)
Did they pull your app that you believe is immune to censorship and surveillance?
This article from Judd Legum and Tesnim Zakaria lists numerous companies who have been and are donating to the Texas Republican Party who are made up, at this point, of seditionists, white supremacists, and Q-Anon supporters. This is truly unacceptable.
Help contact these companies and tell them that they must drop this support or you won't be buying their products again and encouraging others to do the same. These public pressure campaigns work.
Anheuser-Busch is the worst of them. Contact them here. The rest can be searched. Pitch in.
https://contactus.anheuser-busch.com/contactus/contactusnew/anheuserbusch/contact_us.html
The Texas Republican Party has gone off the rails. Corporate America is along for the ride:
https://popular.info/p/the-texas-republican-party-has-gone?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxOTYwMzcyLCJwb3N0X2lkIjozMTkxMjUwNiwiXyI6Ii9wNTM5IiwiaWF0IjoxNjExNzY5OTY1LCJleHAiOjE2MTE3NzM1NjUsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xNjY0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.pT8TyxMkF4sGI1BYHxKybjjspfHlfBikhTCbVaL7tD0
I think this meme puts things into a scary perspective, and it is entirely true, no need for exaggeration.
When homosexuals were liberated from concentration camps in WWII those who were there for being gay were put right back into prisons in germany at least.
Basically most of the laws the Nazis enacted that made the jews and other groups "illegal" were repealed. However paragraph 175 which specified that homosexuality was illegal due to "indecency" remained on the books until 1969, and under that law for the homosexual population the holocaust never really ended.
Some perspective I think its good we all have on the issue.
#Homoesexuality #LGBT #Holocaust #HumanRights #CivilRights #CivilLiberties
@SecondJon @freemo True, but the DC National Guard is only a portion of those deployed for the Inauguration. There were many from other states as well. And honestly given the events of January, I am fine with all of this for now.
If you want to be annoyed with Biden, look at his stance on Section 230. That's much more concerning than the DC National Guard.
@freemo
I have a date for the tweet in the lower left corner. Any photo there must have been taken on or before that date.
@freemo These pictures were taken on or before inauguration day. Currently the number of Guardsmen is down as many have been recalled by their own states.
@freemo Good. Having said that, I think I need to go to sleep. I clearly misread your take on the first place, and I should wait until I don't have alcohol in my system
@freemo Sorry. I apologise. I've had 4 drinks and probably should not have written anything
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