There was a reply from the official proton handle on mastodon doubling down on the Andy’s take.

He went after big tech as a punishment for fact checking the bullshit coming from his administration and his followers. That was it.

This exactly. We have to remember that the stricter moderation policies on several of the big tech social media platforms had got trump banned from them. At that time, trump was incensed with them and had promised retaliation. That was the only reason he was going against the big tech companies.

Now that all big tech has turned away from democrats (probably as punishment for their antitrust lawsuits), we will see a much different perspective from the Trump administration.

Exactly. Lina Khan bought several cases anti trust cases against big tech but they were thrown out by the republican biased courts. Hell republicans even tried to hound and harass khan over the cases she was bringing

Vance, the U.S. vice president-elect, has said antitrust officials should take a broader approach to antitrust enforcement, and praised the work of Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan

Reading this confuses me greatly because republicans, especially Jim Jordan from what I remember, have been harassing and preventing Lina Khan and the FTC from taking action against big corporations.

Hell if she is doing such a great job, why fire her and replace her with a snake whose views are the antitheses of Khan’s outlook.

This was common in budget laptops 10 years ago. I had a Asus laptop with the same resolution and I have seen others with this resolution as well

Dude what the fuck. That is scary. And here I am trying to somehow convince my friends to join signal.

By the way which state do you live in¿?

It’s true Indian government has banned Element and other Apps and forced Signal, WhatsApp and other such apps to have a local representative so that they can arrest someone and force their will.

Wait what! When did this happen. I live in India and just saw the element app on the play store.

They started going through chats on traffic stops, but there are ways to avoid that also

I have also yet to see this but then again this seems like something the conservative (read authoritarian) government could do

Damn. You have my respect.

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