Jokes on them, I just flat out lie in half my YouTube comments as I’ve assumed this sort of thing already existed.

I care less about intention than impact tbh and pornography is banned or restricted in almost every country outside of the west for a reason. This is just the west catching up imo.

My only rule is that I won’t pirate it if I would otherwise buy it and not do without it. Either way they make no money from me, but sometimes after pirating I’ll want to actually buy it.

Good. The effects of porn culture is a serious problem and free sites like pornhub are extra exploitative of the workers who create the content.

I was under the impression that only specifically protonMAIL logs your IP because of specific laws targeting mail providers while ProtonVPN is not required to.

https://protonvpn.com/support/no-logs-vpn/

" We don’t log which websites you visit We don’t log your traffic or the content of any communications We don’t log your IP address We don’t log your session lengths We don’t log or track any location-based information "

And that while the same applies by DEFAULT by all of their products

https://proton.me/legal/privacy

“2.5 IP logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in relation with your Account.”

They can’t definitively say they don’t log IP as they are legally required to log AFTER a valid court order from the swiss government demanding them to log and release for a specific person/account in accordance with the swiss Criminal Procedure Code article 269 as ProtonMAIL is considered a telecommunications platform

https://www.swissrights.ch/gesetze/Artikel-269-StPO-2023-EN.php

“The public prosecutor may arrange for post and telecommunications to be monitored if: a. there is a strong suspicion that an offence listed in paragraph 2 has been committed; b. the seriousness of the offence justifies surveillance; and c. investigative activities carried out so far have been unsuccessful or the enquiries would otherwise have no prospect of success or be made unreasonably complicated.”

If I’m wrong on this please correct me but this is my understanding and from the quick research I did to provide links and quotes it does still seems to be true to me.

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You should use a VPN anyway if you’re that worried about your Email provider knowing your IP.

Assuming their story is true.

How would logging in and giving them your number potentially restore them if they’re stored locally and are just gone?

It’s not about having faith in the rule of law, it’s about minimizing risk. Obviously if they’re just gonna kill you or mail you to CECOT there’s nothing you can do anyway.

Well, travelling with a burner phone won’t stop a cop from just shooting you in the streets!

In America at least, “law enforcement” (Police, Ice, CBP) aren’t allowed to force you to enter your password, but they can just happen to hold your phone up to your finger/face to unlock it using biometrics.

They need to verify using a phone number because otherwise other people could sign up using your phone number and pretend to be you? What?

They can only sign up using your phone number if they do require a phone number. If they didn’t ask for a phone number then how would people sign up using your phone number?

~ how is that different than having 50 different accounts all using the same password?

Because the password manager would have to be hacked itself.

If you just use the same password for everything, any of those 50 sites could be hacked.

Yeah and I get that. But they also don’t know anyone is Russia and/or Europe and don’t speak Polish/German/etc to make sneaking through Russia to Europe a more valid option than going to Mexico… especially when Europe themselves are going through a big surge in anti-immigant sentiments.

I just didn’t like how their message came off as if Mexico was literally Hell to be avoided at any cost.

“suggesting to go back to Mexico is as good as no advice, because that’s what deportation does as well.”

No it’s not. Do you deny the existence of the border camps? Do you deny that people are being sent to Guantanamo or an El Salvadorian concentration camp?

Suggesting they go back to Mexico is suggesting that the reward is not worth the heightened risk.

Edit: and to be clear I’m not even suggesting that they do go back. I’d just suggest that they asses the risk/reward and if they choose to stay they NEED to recognize the risk and organize within their communities accordingly.

Yes, that would obviously be best for discovering their individual reasons and I have discussed it with a few. But I’m not asking you why they come here. I’m asking why you believe what you said to be true and valid. I’m Mexican-American myself and your words just didn’t sit right with me, it felt like you were just dismissing the whole idea of people living in Mexico…like a liberalized/opposite version of the “if you love Mexico why don’t you go back!” We get whenever we show pride for Mexico (Implying that Mexico is a terrible place nobody should want to live or be proud of). I’m sure that wasn’t your intention but its how it came off to me.

As for the substance of your response.

While mexico is certainly below in most metrics on averages, that includes wealth and cost of living averages. You shouldn’t focus on just averages but the disparity between things like cost of healthcare and general living vs wages. Also being among the lower classes drastically increases your chances to be murdered in the US which isn’t accurately represented in the average national statistics. It’s not as simple as Mexico being a death pit and America is safe.

Why couldn’t they live in Mexico? Why is the EU or US the only option? Is the rapidly declining US really so much better for you that you would risk being detained and sent to a concentration camp than live in Mexico?

Why are your only options the EU or US? Is every other option really unavailable/worse than ending up in a concentration camp? /Gen.

Not saying you should flee just because you face oppression, just wondering about your listed reason not to.