“a dramatic decline in people’s desire to stand out from other people over the past 20 years…people are afraid of drawing too much attention to themselves, potentially because doing so leaves them vulnerable or at risk of being ostracized (or cancelled).”

Two years in prison for waving an English flag.

Eighteen-year-old James Martin has been sentenced to two years and two months in prison, all for marching outside an Islamic centre in Scarborough, North Yorkshire while brandishing an England flag.

Now he will be tossed aside, and she will move on to the next guy

dead even

(FWIW, nah, this one looks much bigger than israel. Telegram been making big enemies all over the world, and see next post.)

(So likely not true that telegram refused to censor the Israel leaks)

and then says let’s go to paris

obvs

Cracking down on privacy tech is the US’s bread and butter, since forever

Huge list of privacy product founders that got rekt by the US when they refused to install backdoors, from Liberty Reserve to Lavabit, hundreds of them

Bitcoin / crypto really is unique in being so robust to government attacks, so much that they backtracked on directly cracking down on the tech itself around ~2014

ONLY real reason not to suspect US involvement in the telegram crackdown is if US already had it heavily backdoored, which is possible