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Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail

dil@hexbear.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.

the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.

Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools.

Honestly, pretty glowing review of Proton Mail

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shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Bomb threats to local schools were also being sent via Proton.

If they aren’t going to help deal with that then I can understand why turning them off and figuring out is the next best step.

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- dil@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’m not saying “yay, it’s morally good to send bomb threats.”
  
  Folks who care about privacy don’t want their email provider engaging with local authorities.
  
  when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty
  
  “Illegal” is NOT immoral, and when laws are increasingly being passed by right-wing nutjobs folks doing the right thing will be doing illegal things.
  
  women get access to an abortion
  
  undocumented folks avoiding being sent to El Salvador
  
  trans folks getting healthcare
  
  Any platform has three options:
  
  Always comply with law enforcement, and give up vulnerable populations that are targeted by the government
  
  Never comply with law enforcement, and make law enforcement track down bomb threats some other way
  
  Sometimes comply with law enforcement, based on… what criteria? where’s the line?
  
  3 is obviously the thing we’d like, but a) no company is going to open itself up to legal threats by doing it.
  
  This article shows that Proton Mail is falling into category 2. I think that category should exist to protect vulnerable populations.
  
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  - shawn1122@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I see where you’re coming from but I think that line can be drawn by those with a moral compass, which I understand America is failing at right now.
    
    I truly believe most people can distinguish between threatening to bomb children and any of the examples you’ve listed but perhaps I’m giving people too much of a benefit of the doubt.
    
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