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Just add removal of civil rights for trans folks (like they did in Iowa) and criminalization of trans-ness (like being proposed in Texas) and thing get shitty real fast.
I still can’t believe this shit is actually real. We all need to be taking this extremely seriously, and protecting ourselves, those we love, and those we may not know but we know deserve to live with safety and dignity and privacy. Check out the tools linked at the bottom for how to protect yourself.
Stripping these protections from LGBTQ people enables targeted surveillance of us. It will not stop there. Thanks to Erin in the Morning’s coverage- there are links to guide us in protecting ourselves.
DHS is going to have to spend so, so many hours listening to my elderly mother calling and asking how to use her phone (“What’s email again?”), and explaining, in great detail, why her older sister has always had it out for her (“I think she was jealous because I had bigger boobs.”). You know, stuff of national import.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has free toolkits for getting yourself out of the way of surveillance.
I'm so tired.
Thank you, Erin. EFF is highly recommended and very layman-friendly for the average internet user.
I would like to interject that by the way, I use Arch on a very inexpensive ($200 when I bought it, $150 now) Gnu/Linux smartphone and am very impressed with how busy the developers have been.
GrapheneOS and/or mobile Ubuntu might be a reaso…
This is indeed terrible, but any kind of surveillance gets justified. Any kind, on anyone, anywhere, at any time.
