I remember them responding to a couple antipiracy lawsuits in… India I think? they also make an exception for ISIS-related channels. But mostly all, yes.

they did ban it, and everyone still used it (Telegram was good at evading the bans back then, but eventually Roskomnadzor became decent at banning it), and then they unbanned it, whatever that means

Russia banned Telegram, everyone (incl. the government) continued to use it, Russia unbanned Telegram - that’s how it looks from here. A government official told me Telegram being unbanned was just a matter of time when it was still banned.

You’re right in thinking law is moral, because morals have a historical character, and a class character, much like laws, and are shaped by the ruling class. However, because you ignore class, you can’t properly analyze what “law is moral” means. For example, copyright is moral in capitalism, because it “protects artists’ rights” and “copying is stealing” and whatnot. Lobbying is moral, because the entire parliamentary system is set up with the goal of letting the rich “invest” into the political “marketplace of ideas”.

However, the fact law is moral under capitalism doesn’t mean the law is “eternally” moral. Capitalism is harming humanity, so it must go, alongside its morals. You are right that in the future, copyright won’t exist. However, for such a change in the political superstructure, according economical changes are required. Until capitalism is gone, there are no reasons for copyright to magically disappear, and a billion reasons for it to keep existing.

sorry, goalpost moving isn’t my favorite sport

no? anyone can send a spec proposal here. After discussion and implementation, it may well be accepted.

The person who invented the term “open source” simply intended it to be “free software” but in business speak. The fact some random people on the internet thought it means “source available” is not the term’s fault.

Discord isn’t encrypted at all

it’s good, but older software doesn’t support it

it’s the same as about:config

Just use something vanilla like Ungoogled Chromium. Don’t use it for everything, only for working on projects that require it.

why does it have to be good or bad? it’s just a fact you have to put up with

You can use Termux… but yeah, it’s a little rough

And in all my 7 years of flashing phones I’ve never bricked one, though of course YMMV

You can use Tesseract for OCR and any engine for translation. That said, in my experience there are much better OCRs than tesseract, but you gotta surf Github/Huggingface for that.

bruh what are you talking about, there are indeed national root certs but that’s purely for Sberbank and similar government sites, I wouldn’t put it past them to go further but we’re a loooooong way off

LTSC isn’t hacked, it’s an official LTS version

if you want to configure Fennec to use Searx, set the search engine URL to https://searx.example.org/search?q=%s

Other than that, I only have one tip for non-Google search engines - always set the correct region.

check out Valetudo

tbf public transport can be very bad for privacy, depending on the politics of your country… granted, with facial and other recognition nowhere is safe

I think they wanted to push the fork Sneedacity?