The fash explicitly claim the right to break laws in partisan interest. It's that simple.
I'm gonna smoke me a Mary J. Wana
Y'all ain't can stop me, I'm totally gonna
Bake me a stoned like a sunny iguana
I'm gonna smoke me a Mary J. Wana
I'm gonna hash pipe to high me my head
Mellow my jello from born until dead
Teq' me no 'quila, no pills blue and red
I'm gonna hash pipe to high me my head
I'm gonna weed me some grassical pots
Look you my dime bag 'cause that's what I gots
Ain't gonna shoot me no heroin shots
Just gonna weed me some grassical pots
Pot, weed, grass, ganja, herb, trees, green, chronic, reefer, doobage, dagga, dank, tea, ...
It's from a political cartoon depicting a corrupt districting plan as a salamander.
“A story shared by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, uncovered that the current leaders of Signal, an allegedly ‘secure’ messaging app, are activists used by the US state department for regime change abroad,” Durov wrote on his own Telegram channel.
In fact, the folks running Signal — notably Moxie Marlinspike and Meredith Whittaker — have a long history of effective security & privacy activism. Whittaker was one of the organizers of the Google Walkouts, one of the more effective pieces of tech worker activism in recent history. And Moxie has bumped heads with the US intelligence community more than once, and famously with the Saudis too.
Regulating a money scam that uses art as a token isn't regulating art, it's regulating money scams.
Yeah, spoken "lol" in place of saying "that's funny" or, y'know, actually laughing.
If your kids' school laptops are surveilled, they're surveilled by someone. Let's call that someone Joe. Joe is a person who took a low-paying job that lets him surveil your kids. Joe likes his job, because he gets to surveil your kids. He gets to turn on the camera and look in your kids' room. He gets to read the chat messages your kids send to their classmates.
Your kids would be better off without Joe in their lives. Joe is not a source of security. Joe is not protecting your kids; Joe is a threat to them.