Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail
shawn1122@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoBomb threats to local schools were also being sent via Proton.
If they aren’t going to help deal with that then I can understand why turning them off and figuring out is the next best step.
dil@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
I’m not saying “yay, it’s morally good to send bomb threats.”
Folks who care about privacy don’t want their email provider engaging with local authorities.
“Illegal” is NOT immoral, and when laws are increasingly being passed by right-wing nutjobs folks doing the right thing will be doing illegal things.
Any platform has three options:
3 is obviously the thing we’d like, but a) no company is going to open itself up to legal threats by doing it.
This article shows that Proton Mail is falling into category 2. I think that category should exist to protect vulnerable populations.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Nah, they outed a French activist due to a court order. Maybe they’re learning though…
shawn1122@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I see where you’re coming from but I think that line can be drawn by those with a moral compass, which I understand America is failing at right now.
I truly believe most people can distinguish between threatening to bomb children and any of the examples you’ve listed but perhaps I’m giving people too much of a benefit of the doubt.
dil@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
There are plenty of people that things that each of those things are morally wrong, and some who would say that they’re much worse than a bomb threat.
Those people are writing the laws.
Legality and morality are two completely different things. It’s a comfortable lie to think they’re the same.
Having an email provider that will not comply with law enforcement is important because any of us could be next on the target list.