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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Phone searches: not new. People being rejected at the border because of posts critical of the incoming president, yes, that is very much a new thing.

Would love to see some stories of people rejected at the border for criticism of Biden or Obama if you can find any.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Canada? He's British. Swing and a miss.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This might be normal opsec for a foreign agent, but absolutely ridiculous to expect average people or some French doctor to adhere to.

The reality is this issue would never have happened just three months ago, and the reason it's happening now is fascism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It hasn't been a democracy since it had the 'electoral college' and unequal representation. So, forever..

But within the context of the previous status quo - I'd say it stopped being a democracy exactly when Trump was allowed to be a candidate for the presidency after the Jan 6 coup attempt, and parallel attempts to invent votes and pressure states to lie about their vote counts. Which was blatantly unconstitutional and illegal. More than enough evidence to bar him from being a candidate, and yet the senate allowed it to proceed - that was the end.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

With Windows 11 you don't have to pay for the OS because you are the product through profiling and advertising, like Facebook and Google.

That sounds way, way worse to me that the old Win7 & Win10 model where you'd pay your ~$30 oem license (or $60 retail) once and be done forever without being heavily tracked and monitored.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Yes if I recall correctly he tried to delete it by cludging a poorly formatted Linux 'rm -rf' that would format his local system, if it was a command that made sense at all.

Implying not only does he not know much about computers, but also that he is infected with the 'virus' himself.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

I'm sure going into the FTC, swiping their security fob and having it deny them entry would be a huge boon for their cause. If they're asked to leave by security and they don't they can be legally arrested for trespassing.

The same afternoon she was dismissed, Slaughter is out with an official statement and on the phone to multiple press agencies to get the story out immediately. Sure sounds like someone taking action to me. No doubt she will take them to court (likely the other guy will join her) but that doesn't happen overnight, this was literally yesterday - best lawyer in the world would struggle to have an actionable case ready yet.

You'll note that none of the above can be done if you're still under arrest for trespass..

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Its not like they can just keep showing up to work and the security keyfobs will keep working and the paycheck will keep coming.

That shit wouldn't work at a Taco Bell I don't see how you guys think it would work for a Federal Trade Commission officer.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago

Hey at least they have the moral high ground - they'll have a good view watching the country sink into fascism from up there

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

The article says that Customs and Border Patrol agents "found “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah figures in the deleted items folder of her cellphone."

That statement is vague enough in itself (could be memes from a group chat, could be something someone shared in a whatsapp chat that she had no interest in - we don't know). What we do know is that having pictures sympathetic to Hezbollah figures on your phone is not illegal, and it doesn't automatically equate to 'being supportive of terrorists'. I have photos of Trump in my phone from group chats and from web cache of viewed articles, and I hate the treasonous c*nt.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No mention of gang involvement or anything illegal whatsoever from the female doctor deported in the article you're commenting on - so you're just spouting nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Crazy they make you pay for the cloud saves feature which is provided by Ludusavi - which is free OSS.

 

Hi all.

First, thanks for reading. I'm not exactly sure if this is the correct location to raise a concern about a ban/deletion, but I guess it's as good as any.

So:

  1. I dont know which mod it was. Log is redacted?
  2. post deleted & banned from the [email protected] community
  3. screenshot of modlog attached
  4. screenshot of comment attached.
  5. It was an appreciated post with 106 upvotes 26 downvotes at deletion and several positive responses yesterday. When I came back today (I'm in Australia so timezones..) the comment was deleted and I was banned - and several negative comments have appeared which I would have liked to respond to.

Original post: a news article about Proton Mail.

My post: Essentially I took the time to read the article and included the quotes of what was written by the CEO that was being discussed in the article - as many in the comments had surprised me by jumping straight to him being a literal Nazi. As not a single other commenter had included the quotes to discuss the source, I thought that would be a valuable contribution. I also gave my opinions which you can see in the comment on the modlog, the formatting is messed up so I included a screenshot of the (recreated) comment. https://lemmy.world/modlog/1347

What I didn't notice was that the article writer had omitted the first part of the Twitter post from the CEO in her quotation of him - so I quoted her, and in doing so missed the context that the CEO had actually started "Great pick by @realDonaldTrump" at the start - which does of course change the context of his Twitter post to praise. This was clarified for me in the angry responses. I would have edited my comment and owned my mistake, however stood by the rest of the comment regarding Proton's official follow-up.

So, is that deletion and ban fair?

Update 10 hours later: contacted a mod directly to see if i can find out more about the ban or perhaps get it remedied.

Update 48 hours later: contacted the entire mod team, and got back feedback from several of them - all helpful. My post has now been undeleted, and my account unbanned from the News community 👍

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