When? Never, because this is overwhelmingly likely to be propaganda to manufacture consent for another war.

Remember 20 years ago when they said Iran was only a few days away from being a nuclear armed power? or when they said that same thing 30 years ago?

They keep trying to make everyone terrified of russia and china and keep talking like they want to kill everyone else on earth.

CNN was one of the outlets that said "WMDs in Iraq!" for my entire childhood and most of my teenage years. That alone should be enough to never trust them again.

A very rare instance of two companies merging together being good news

god damn right.

well clearly there must be someone at that evil organization with a soul then

but digital ID is going to make everything so secure!

That was sarcasm

Proton or Mullvad, whatever works better for you

Yes, but telling you how I do it would be bad opsec.

As soon as I first heard about services like betterhelp and their competitors, I knew it was a terrible idea.

Therapists have to keep records of everything you say to them, and if it's a big-tech owned service like that that's already getting hacked every other hour, do you think it's safe to have intimate details of your personal problems in a database like that?

remind me again how digital IDs are going to make us safer when every company with people's personal details is constantly getting hacked?

I once knew a guy that was really stupid. He got angry very quickly and had no patience for anything.

He had a lock on the button for his garage door opener that was a slider switch, he caved it in because he pressed it really hard instead of just looking and seeing that it's a slider switch

It definitely leaked data from everyone else on there too.

I always knew sending your DNA and having it analyzed by a big company was a bad idea.

What kind of a loser do you have to be to DDoS Tor?

Probably some narc being paid by some corporation that wants to control everything.