From 5725a56789f4e504b717ee07d9f25ddaf72d8403 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dessalines Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 16:41:21 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Some changes. --- socialism_faq.md | 6 +++++- why_not_signal.md | 10 ++++++---- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/socialism_faq.md b/socialism_faq.md index 1eb93db..f641409 100644 --- a/socialism_faq.md +++ b/socialism_faq.md @@ -534,6 +534,10 @@ - [_An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now_](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eTgjCs2lzpMl92U3JzQ0pIa3c/view?usp=sharing) by F.S. - [_Growing Up Under Communism Was The Happiest Time Of My Life_](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221064/Oppressive-grey-No-growing-communism-happiest-time-life.html) by Zsuzsanna Clark +### Russian Federation (1991-present) + +- [Stansfield Smith - Is Russia Imperialist?](https://mronline.org/2019/01/02/is-russia-imperialist/) + ### Further reading - [A collection of Soviet history books on Stalin and Stalinism.](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/1hzwl3/a_collection_of_soviet_history_books_on_stalin/) @@ -586,7 +590,7 @@ - [Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/91liw2/how_is_china_staying_true_to_communist_values/e2z3kzu/) - [Didn't China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn't it liberalize its economy? Is China's drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/b3gjfe/chinas_drastic_decrease_in_poverty_is_a_result_of/ey8depl/?context=3) - [Is the CPC committed to communism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/c9ee36/why_do_i_see_so_many_people_on_the_communism/esxapi2/) -- [The Long Game and Its Contradictions](https://www.greanvillepost.com/2018/10/30/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions/). [Audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoali1j-mai9MtggjA-Vzc4x) +- [The Long Game and Its Contradictions](https://archive.is/GfM71). [Audiobook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoali1j-mai9MtggjA-Vzc4x) - [The myth of Chinese state capitalism. Did Deng really betray Chinese socialism?](http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/08/20/the-myth-of-chinese-capitalism-2/) - [Tsinghua University- Is Socialism with Chinese Characteristics real socialism, or is it state Capitalism?](https://youtube.com/watch?v=62mvMWJHt8g) - [Isn't China revisionist for having a capitalist sector of the economy, and working with capitalists? Why isn't it fully planned like the USSR was?](https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/185239) diff --git a/why_not_signal.md b/why_not_signal.md index d59b2f2..75fbcb9 100644 --- a/why_not_signal.md +++ b/why_not_signal.md @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Signal could very well be another Crypto AG-style [honeypot](), [Marlinspike's confused and useful idiot politics aside](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/n9o9bNI6gp.jpg); Signal's other deficiencies mean that there are less impediments to US government surveillance over it than previously thought, and make its claims to being "secure", questionable. @@ -100,7 +100,9 @@ As the above article states, after Yasha Levine wrote an article exposing Signal > Our primary interest is to make sure the extended OTF network and the Internet Freedom community are not spooked by the [Yasha Levine's] article (no pun intended). Fortunately all the major players in the community are together in Valencia this week - and report out from there indicates they remain comfortable with OTF/RFA. -Clearly the US government was interested in Signal's continued use and expansion. +Clearly the US government was **promoting Signal's continued use and expansion.** + +In 2024, Meredith Whittaker, the acting president of the Signal Foundation, [even held an interview with Lawfare](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/at-signal-a-revolution-in-messaging), a US state-department connected Washington DC think-tank, dedicated to US national security. The reason the US government hasn't tried to block or hinder Signal, _is because it's satisfied with the amount of information Signal can provide to it._ @@ -108,9 +110,9 @@ The reason the US government hasn't tried to block or hinder Signal, _is because #### National Security Letters (NSLs) -The US has an [interesting law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter) that applies to _any US company_ operating within its borders: it is **illegal to tell your users that the the US government has asked your company to spy on their behalf.** This is called a [key disclosure law](https://www.privacyguides.org/providers/#kdl), and the US's version of it, called [National Security Letters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter), underwent an expansion with the PATRIOT act. +The US has an [interesting law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter) that applies to _any US company_ operating within its borders: it is **illegal to tell your users that the the US government has asked your company to spy on their behalf.** This is called a [key disclosure law](https://www.privacyguides.org/providers/#kdl), and the US's version of it, called [National Security Letters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter), underwent an expansion with the PATRIOT act; by 2013, President Obama’s Intelligence Review Group reported issuing on average, **nearly 60 NSLs every day.** -Companies that don't comply with this law, [such as Lavabit, are forced to shut themselves down in protest, in order to avoid prison time](https://youtube.com/watch?v=spW0q-g2BxU), or remain open, and funnel user communications to the US government. The Signal foundation is a US domiciled company, and must comply with this law. +Companies that don't comply with this law, [such as Lavabit, are forced to shut themselves down in protest, in order to avoid prison time](https://youtube.com/watch?v=spW0q-g2BxU), or remain open, and funnel user communications to the US government. The Signal foundation is a US domiciled company, and must comply with this law. Signal also notably **isn't self-hostable**: there's no way to run your own signal server, and control your data. [Marlinspike ruthlessly shuts down anyone attempting to build alternate clients or servers that could communicate with the main one.](https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issuecomment-217211165) [2](https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal)