I stopped following him after the incident like many, so I am also unsure. I could be misinformed, but I haven't heard of any controversies since then.
I am sympathetic because I was once a conservative due to my upbringing. But after moving out and experiencing the world, I have gotten more and more progressive. I shutter at shit I used to say, but can't change the past. I can only focus on bettering myself for the future.
Here is the thing with Asmondgold. He apologized for calling Palestinians subhuman, then went on to say right after that voices for Palestinians deserve what's coming to them and a bunch of other horrendous shit.
From what I understand Pewdiepie hasn't been problematic since the bridge incident. So it's not a 1:1 comparison.
Do you believe in rehabilitation? I think its admirable for someone to overcome their shortcomings. Especially considering that we are all products of our environments.
To my understanding he apologized for the horrific things he said in the past and is attempting to better himself as a person. I don't see him continuing to be a problematic person.
Trying to get my peers to care about their own privacy is exhausting. I wish their choices don't effect me, but like this article states.. They do in the long run.
I will remain stubborn and only compromise rather than give in.
For a more privacy focused solution I use Freetube on my Steamdeck. It has some drawbacks, but worth it if you are trying to reduce your online footprint.
It looks like telegram under the U.S SCA and FISA acts may be gagged from disclosing government surveillance as well in their privacy policy or terms of service.
However, their privacy policy on secret chats say this.
Secret chats use end-to-end encryption. This means that all data is encrypted with a key that only you and the recipient know. There is no way for us or anybody else without direct access to your device to learn what content is being sent in those messages. We do not store your secret chats on our servers. We also do not keep any logs for messages in secret chats, so after a short period of time we no longer know who or when you messaged via secret chats. For the same reasons secret chats are not available in the cloud — you can only access those messages from the device they were sent to or from.
This would be a lie if government agencies had backdoor access to your EE2E messages. And would potentially line themselves up to a lawsuit? However I am not a lawyer and don't know if there are other laws that overwrite this.
I thought secret chats were E2EE and weren't stored on servers. That doesn't necessarily mean Grok can't read them if it's not server side, but that's what I'm curious about.
Thank you for the explanation! So essentially, you use your sim free phone as a very portable laptop.
I like the idea of having a sim free phone and have a feature phone for cellular service. I miss the aesthetic of flip phones! I would just need to find one that supports hotspot (just in case) and decent navigation.
I didn't know Lemmy had so many Apple fans.