• Shamber@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    With all respect to a privacy advocates(I’m one), but blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point, these people are not trying to hide their activities, or locations, and many of them are not tech-saavy, the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta, and all the other goons…this is so fucked up on so many levels.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      not tech-saavy

      that’s like owning a classic sports car and refusing to learn the basics of maintenance.

      yeah, shame on meta like always, but if you are going against an empire, you should at least make sure your critical communications are not on the empire’s servers.

        • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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          3 days ago

          meta is one of the surveillance arms of the empire that makes the genocide possible in the first place.

          of course they will cut them off.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    So the Trump ass-kissers have given the King of Fools another gift for his pleasure. The cost to freedom is immense

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    relying on whatsapp for dissenting

    more leftists could really use understanding computers. how the fuck can you go in such a mission full of the empire’s tracking devices. using whatsapp shows there wasn’t even thought put into it.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      Keep in mind the tweet refers to the group chat as used by the flotilla to communicate with their European supporters, not necessarily for their internal communications.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        communicating with your supporters in a mostly political mission is very important. meta has deleted the account of political activists in my country before too and it does hinder their efforts.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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      3 days ago

      They literally broadcast their location publicly on their website.

      This public tracking is the only reason they didn’t all get murdered on the last boat

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        tracking doesn’t only mean location.

        and the power they get is not only tracking. its shutting down their communications too.

    • toppy@lemy.lol
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      3 days ago

      Maybe the aim of the flotilla was to just make people aware that there are activists who are worried about gaza. Just to create media buzz.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        yes, but i don’t think handing all their communications (and possibly much more) to the entity they want to pressure is helping though.

  • appropriateghost@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    another reason why not to use whatsapp? for all that is good, don’t use meta or any corporate technofascist company. there are better options.

  • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Sounds like this group is more of a social media vibe group, rather then a group interested in real undermining of Zionism. Maybe stop being pawns for slacktivists with rich parents and try joining the PLO instead?

    • Korkki@lemmy.ml
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      3 days ago

      Totally consistent Meta is joined at the hip with US government and therefore more or less in league with Zionists, neocons and Israel just like every american big tech, bank and media company.

  • incentive@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I use WhatsApp cautiously with friends who still refuse to jump over to Signal (let alone Matrix or Session). But it’s def mind blowing to read an activist group was relying on it for organizing. Reminds me of FB being used for organizing G20 and BLM demos -_-

    • ctry21@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I think a lot of non-techie people only know signal from the Trump admin using it illegally earlier in the year. In a lot of people’s minds because of that they think Signal = insecure because they don’t get the nuances of why using it in that specific context – on personal phones, using a third party app, with a random journalist in the mix – was bad, but that for most people it’s still one of the best options. WhatsApp on the other hand has a lot of marketing around it and if you didn’t know that Meta is Facebook I think some people wouldn’t even realise who the owners are.

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Considering their entire marketing campaign is “nobody, not even WhatsApp can see your messages,” I can see how folks would fall for that.