dead [he/him]

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Cake day: April 3rd, 2021
  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Liberals being shockedEnglish
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    2 days ago

    DPRK has considered Israel to be an illegal state and it to be a satellite of the US since the 1980s. Every month or so, DPRK releases a press statement condemning Israel’s war crimes. The last one I see posted was on July 6. I read the DPRK-hosted website almost every day.

    The statement about DPRK implementing a new death penalty law for promoting Zionism seems like fake news. If such a law exists in DPRK, it wouldn’t be a recent law as the instagram post is from July 15 and says “North Korea has passed a new law”. I don’t see it mentioned on any of DPRK’s websites.

    Below is an article from October 13 2023 from DPRK which says that the US is responsible for Israel’s attack on Gaza. “The reality clearly proves that the U.S. is not a ‘mediator’ but a wrecker of Middle East peace and it is not a partner but a foe of Arab.”

    https://web.archive.org/web/20231013220121/http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/aa4df265dc7ce03ee512204d1071fd47.kcmsf

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.netOPtonews@hexbear.net•ALU labor organizer Chris Smalls was beaten by the IOF after being kidnapped from the Handala Gaza Freedom FlotillaEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Who has a positive association with the word “detained”? Detention doesn’t imply legitimacy. Also it’s really annoying when people police the wording of discussion. They’re not operating as a social club. Also it makes articles harder to search in the algorithm when you use obscure language. It is pretty clear that Drop Site News, an organization which frequently interviews leaders of Hamas, is not supporting Israel by using subliminal messaging.

    As example of how “detained” does not imply legitimacy. The screenshot below shows headlines of the US-funded propaganda outlet DailyNK using the word detained to describe alleged actions of DPRK. Would you say that the outlet funded by the National Endowment for Democracy is using pro-DPRK language?

    It legitimately makes discussing news harder when people scold language usage. It’s one thing to recognize that there are pro-Zionist outlets which use passive language whitewash Israel. It’s not realistic to expect news outlets to report in shibboleths.

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettotechnology@hexbear.net•Any VPN Self-hosters about?English
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    6 days ago

    A self-hosted VPN would mean that you rent a server, install a VPN server software on the server, and then route your traffic through that server. The benefit of having self hosted VPN is that you would have more bandwidth. Typically, VPN companies will allocate 30-40 users to a single VPN server, so you get a fraction of the bandwidth. Also, your server will have a dedicated IP address, which could be good or bad depending on your needs.

    If your goal is to bypass the UK govt firewall, a self-hosted VPN is fine. Renting a server requires that you provide ID, most times. If you commit any severe crimes (hacking, etc), the server company could be subpoenaed for your information. You probably shouldn’t use a self hosted VPN with public torrents. I’ve heard that people commonly use self-hosted VPNs with private torrents, without problem.

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•UK’s new age verification laws are preventing anyone under the age of 18 from accessing information on Reddit about Israeli war crimes.English
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    8 days ago

    Do you believe that the lawmakers decided that they would abuse the bill before or after it was passed? For your post to make any sense, you would have to believe that the lawmakers did not have malicious intentions prior to passing the bill.

    Based on the observable reality that the law is being abused to prevent people from seeing Israeli war crimes. The law has been active for less than a week and it is already being used to protect Zionist ideology. We are observing the this law being used maliciously immediately after going into effect and you are suggesting that we must still frame the law as if it was passed with good intentions.

    Are we to assume that the lawmakers had pure intentions and have made a mistake by blocking anti-Zionist topics? Are we naive? It is necessary to consider that the motivations were malicious prior to the implementation of the bill.

    There was already a mechanism that exists for preventing minors from seeing pornography on the internet. It’s called parental supervision. Additional to monitoring their child’s internet usage, a parent can use a firewall on their own devices to block content unsuitable for minors.

    The motivations of internet ID laws are made in bad faith. This has been observed in the past year with over 20 US states requiring porn websites to verify IDs of every visitor and then the states do not provide the websites with the tools needed to verify the ID of each visitor. Then the websites block traffic from the states, so that they don’t get sued. The intention of these laws is to outlaw porn websites and the promoters of these laws blatantly say so.

    The people pushing Internet ID laws are lying. Their intentions are not protecting children. People who want to ban transgender medical care, claim that they are protecting children. People who want to ban abortion, claim that they are protecting children. People who want to ban same-sex marriage, claim that they were protecting children. It should be considered that reactionaries commonly use “protecting children” to justify enforcing their puritanical world view.

  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•People care more about wanking than they do about whether vulnerable people are starving to death.English
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    9 days ago

    It’s not just porn that is blocked by the UK ID law. It’s any post that is marked NSFW on reddit or even channels on discord which are marked as 18+. I would not at all be surprised if TERF Island decides that topics related to gender or LGBT are now 18+ as well.

    You are creating a false dichotomy. It makes no sense to compare unrelated things. You could equally say “People care more about banning porn than they do about starving people. Why are we spending money on implementing a porn firewall when that money could be spent on feeding hungry people?”

    Why should you be mad that UK is requiring ID for many website, not even porn related? Probably because the UK government is trans exclusionary and Zionist. They will absolutely abuse this new power.