How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?
How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?
I'm wondering if I should just delete lemmy to stay under the radar. 🤔 (I'm a US Citizen currently residing in the US, and moving out of the country is not really an option)
I feel so conflicted on this. On one hand, this is kinda like giving in to authoritarianism, but on the other hand, dissenting is kinda dangerous. 😓
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Be careful what you say - don't call for violence, definitely don't make threats of violence against specific figures, especially ones in office, and as a general rule don't spread personally identifying information
Past that? Let's say there's a crackdown. They're going after low hanging fruit to instill fear. By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals... But if they're looking for you individually, they can find you
I wouldn't worry too much. Dissatisfaction is insanely high... They're more likely to do a great firewall and kill the fediverse long before they bother looking into lemmy accounts
By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you
Yeah. Bonus points if your instance isn't hosted in the US. I'm pretty sure mine is hosted in Canada, and with the way it's going currently in a year or two Canada wouldn't be willing to piss on the US government if it was on fire much less hand over a server full of IP addresses.
hand over a server full of IP addresses
well... hacking is a thing.
But again, hacking is a tool when they want to go after something in particular - a single lemmy server is minuscule. Even the full scale of everyone on lemmy is a very small target... They might go after it if they have specific reason to, but they're unlikely to do so when there's plenty of work to be done on bigger platforms
indeed, but so is Tor. not a perfect solution, but its there and it works well for "casual interactions".