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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)

submitted 8 months ago by UnHidden to c/[email protected]

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I've been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It's all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this, and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.

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[–] UnHidden 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lets be honest, its not much different from China. They both make social media companies censor, and they both track citizens to predict their likliness of committing a crime in the future.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Authoritarianism

Minimally defined, an authoritarian government lacks free and competitive direct elections to legislatures, free and competitive direct or indirect elections for executives, or both. Broadly defined, authoritarian states include countries that lack civil liberties such as freedom of religion, or countries in which the government and the opposition do not alternate in power at least once following free elections

Words have meanings. The United States does not meet the definition of authoritarianism.

[–] isthingoneventhis 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it more like a plutocracy now? I forget the other fun word for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The word you're thinking of might be oligarchy?

[–] isthingoneventhis 2 points 8 months ago

Decidedly less cool sounding than plutocracy but probably