dil [he/him, comrade/them]

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.

when tyranny becomes law rebellion becomes duty

“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.

• women getting access to an abortion
• undocumented folks avoiding being sent to El Salvador
• trans folks getting healthcare

Any platform has three options:

1. Always comply with law enforcement, and give up vulnerable populations that are targeted by the government
2. Never comply with law enforcement, and make law enforcement track down bomb threats some other way
3. Sometimes comply with law enforcement, based on… what criteria? where’s the line?

3 is obviously the thing we’d like, but 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.

its employees had received emails containing obscene and vulgar content sent via Proton Mail.

the email service reportedly refused to share details about the sender of the allegedly offensive emails, despite a police complaint.

Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools.

Honestly, pretty glowing review of Proton Mail