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AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 month ago

US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux

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You can find all of these videos as written articles, plus some extra content, at https://thelibre.news You can the channel grow by donating to the following platforms: Paypal: https://paypal.me/ni...

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TEXT VERSION: https://thelibre.news/trump-cuts-funding-to-foss-projects/

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    Let’s talk about Tiananmen Square.

    • Tank Man (now with more raw footage)
    • The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
    • Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
    • 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
    • A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
    • Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
    • How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

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    Or how about Uyghurs.

    • https://lemmy.ml/comment/15126223
    • https://lemmy.ml/comment/14839342

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    Let’s use a picture of Winnie the Pooh.

    Not censored. You can buy Pooh-branded toys, watch Pooh Disney films, and ride Pooh-branded amusement park rides. Nobody has a problem with this adorable meme.

    People’s democracy my ass.

    • Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn’t
    • Long-term survey reveals Chinese government satisfaction
    • Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
    • China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
    • At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
    • China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

    .
    If you want to talk about a fake democracy, look no further than the US. Previously:

    The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

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      @davel notably, we are not in China. Are you also going to claim that DeepSeek isn’t censored?

      If you don’t see any protests in a democracy, it’s not because everybody is happy.

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        Are you also going to claim that DeepSeek isn’t censored?

        You can download DeepSeek and run it yourself to get uncensored answers.

        Large Language Models (LLMs) are not truth machines. They are garbage in, garbage out. The input to English-language models are largely English-language texts from Five Eyes countries, with all the disinformation and bias that that entails. So the DeepSeek company is in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. They can either refuse to answer certain questions, in which case Western media will accuse them of censorship; or they can answer them, in which case (a) their model will perpetuate Cold War I & Cold War II falsehoods and (b) Western media will parade those false answers around in a victory lap. They chose the former for the cloud version of their app, and the latter for the local version.

        If you don’t see any protests in a democracy, it’s not because everybody is happy.

        Now you’re just vagueposting 🙄 Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds:

        During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

        If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

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          @davel You are confidently incorrect on both counts, but that’s to be expected. Stay classy.

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