An agreeable position if those opinion pieces were written in good faith by a respectable journalist who knows what they're talking about. Honest opinions are never wrong.

But in today's news it's just a way to publish straight-up misinformation and propaganda, they can just abuse their position to just say whatever and people internalise it because, well, it's the news.

Journalists and news outlets used to depend upon a reputation of integrity and factuality built over the years. Now anyone can open up their "news" website, or be a politically motivated party with lots of resources, claim completely made-up stuff, and when those articles reveal themselves to be complete bullshit, nothing happens.

Also, the world seems to really have lost the conception of what is a fact vs what is an opinion, a deduction, a belief, and so on. Guess the nature of Internet communication doesn't help with that.

Don't let the alt-right dictate what "woke" means

Could everyone please stop repeating "nothing will ever come of this" every time fucked up shit happens?

How does Elon Musk meet a 19 year old? There's a non-zero chance they met on 4chan, isn't there?

I wonder how long it would take before you would feel it becoming colder

Yeah ok we get it, they just release the latest checkpoint of their continuously trained model whenever convenient and make big headlines out of it.

Does the UK "claim" Canada because of their relationship to the crown?

There seems to be a gross misunderstanding of how everything works here. Any platform will need to provide data to authorities when "asked properly" - as in, receives an actual order from some enforcing body that has authority on the subject in question. No commercial company will fight the CIA in court to protect your data. The best you can hope for is that they minimize what kind of data they collect about you in the first place - in the case of E2EE, they will only have access to IPs and other metadata such as connection timestamps and nothing else. But all of the services you listed will collect at least IPs and most will do phone numbers as well. The only difference with Telegram is that they're transparent about it. You can either avoid using commercial platforms altogether, or use them in a way such that data retrieved from them will be useless. But believing that "Signal will never give my IP to law enforcement" is delusional.

Uhh.. what? Not saying that those things aren't real today, but are you sure they were the cause of the fall of Rome? lmao

That's because there's no "first party". Just protocols and people

First step, make lobbying illegal ffs

You do realize that you are not answering in good faith, nor providing anything to this thread with this comment? You're being one of the people you're complaining about ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯