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I'm uninformed. What is the significance of riseup.net?
by eutropia 10y ago
I'm uninformed. What is the significance of riseup.net?
- devoply 10y agoFrom top of their page: " Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by controlling our own secure means of communications. "
- benevol 10y agoTotal surveillance means a full frontal attack on democracy. And this situation here seems to be a tiny reminder.
- Raed667 10y agoThey're my email and VPN providers with a great history for privacy.
- defgeneric 10y agoI remember it being used a lot by radical leftist (mostly anarcho-*) groups when I was at university. But even then it was basically assumed that riseup was infiltrated or a honeypot run by the feds.
- Forbo 10y agolabs.riseup.net is home to the git repo for Tails.
- djsumdog 10y agoI hadn't heard of it either until just now. I remember when Reddit removed their warrant canary. I barely even use it now. For most people I bet it didn't matter. I have a feeling with mission of Riseup, this will have a much larger impact on their userbase .. the ones who are aware of this.
- shostack 10y agoI'll bet they placed bets on how quickly people would stop caring once it left the front page. That plus their usage of Moat display analytics tags on the homepage, and pushing for people's email addresses should be a clear telegraph of where they want to take the site. I'm also curious about the security of things like RES.