Amazon is just one of several companies recently accused of turning to encrypted messaging apps like Signal that can permanently erase messages automatically.

You may recall the government making similar arguments about Sam Bankman-Fried’s use of Signal during his trial for fraud and how that verdict eventually shook out. Deleted chats were also a sticking point for at least one juror in Google’s recent courtroom loss to Epic Games and came up in the DOJ’s antitrust trial against Google.

So are they using these trials in their crusade against encryption and having articles like this in hopes of turning the public against it? Because it looks like it to me.

The FTC’s lawyers say Bezos, current CEO Andy Jassy, general counsel David Zapolsky, former CEO of worldwide operations Dave Clark, and other execs are all Signal users. Bezos is identified in the document as “a heavy Signal user” who instructed others to use the app, although the 2018 hacking of his personal cellphone may be part of the reason for that.

Then a few paragraphs later they reveal Bezos has been an encryption fan and user of the service for 5+ years while trying to get others to use it... I get it, Amazon is doing shady shit, but this feels to me like the government is trying to get encryption frowned upon.

He's an old white guy from Texas who espouses the worst of "old school" motorcycle culture... don't be shocked. Jericho, Kane, probably a dozen or more of your favorites from years past and even now will disappoint you if you know their politics. Enjoy the characters, the people behind them are going to be disappointments.

This reeks of the same thing Discovery did when it took control of WB's television and movie production, they canned completed projects, canceled upcoming stuff, and had TV shows like "Final Space" that were out for years erased, all so they could claim a tax break and pocket those billions. What a bunch of frelling bastards.

This should be an automatic impound of the vehicle and when the rep comes to pick it up hand them the ticket. Or you know, make the police send them a damn ticket.

A witness confirmed to the judge on Friday afternoon that a special prosecutor in the case, Kari Morrissey, was directly involved in the decision to file the evidence in an entirely different case file separate from the other Rust materials.

That seems pretty damning to the Prosecutions case. I can see why it was dismissed, it looks like they were hiding evidence.

I see.

And because Amazon didn’t instruct employees to preserve messages sent in the app until more than 15 months after it was notified of the investigation

I somehow misconstrued this line into thinking they had been using it for those 15 months and were then notified they weren't supposed to. I screwed up there.

I don't disagree with the opinion, but where do we go? If Firefox goes down the forks do too, Chrome/Chromium has a monopoly on almost all other browsers, we're stuck between two turd sandwiches as far as I know.

It's not official until the Government enters it into the Geographic Names Information System. Once that happens Google will begin changing their maps.

At what point do these companies ring the turnip dry? YouTube Premium almost doubled, Netflix cracked down on passwords and increased pricing, and if you didn't like it you could pay a little less if you would just watch some ads, which we joined Netflix to get away from, people didn't care so those ads are now in Prime Video and other companies are joining in too. Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+, and Peacock all had price increases in the last year. At some point, you have to dust off your peg leg and put on a tricorn hat.

Well I missed this created a topic on it, and deleted it once I got to this one... So I'll post this here...

I wonder what caused this, I'll be an optimist and say I'm going to take her word for it, if only because I have to believe having a kid of her own really showed her how bad the original conspiracy bullshit was.

The cynic in me though is worried the Reddit AMA showed her the internet didn't forget and the target audience for her comic might need an apology before they buy it.

JK Rowling doesn't believe Transgender people are the sex they identify with and as such is labeled a TERF, Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, and many, especially on the internet believe she should be boycotted and no self respecting person would give her or her properties any money. You typically will see some form of that comment in most postings related to her or Harry Potter.

Nyla's tweet on this is hilarious...

WHO THE FUCK WAS IT?!! Don’t worry Oklahoma I’ll find the dastardly Transgender that * checks notes * entertained fans!!! HOW DARE THEY MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY?!!!

I can't believe people don't like their state police wearing plain clothes, using unmarked cars, hiding their badges, showing up without judicial warrants, and just snatching people before sending them off to foreign prisons, what a bunch of wokesters. /s

It's important to stand up to the fuckers, but equally as terrifying knowing this is likely just the beginning. We still have 1309 days to go, assuming they don't go full coup the way so many think they will.

Yeah, but the whole five of us in the school could text each other without needing to take it out of our pockets so the teachers wouldn't take it away. Kids these days won't have those awesomely useless skills.

AAA may have been a dumpster fire, but this, this just feels wrong.

Triple H really never let those NXT Everywhere dreams go. This is only good for TKO, they get a bigger foothold for UFC and PBR events as well.

Fuck TKO and fuck WWE, ghoul ass motherfuckers.

EDIT: I'm still mad at it, but I cooled down on this because I do like it was contracts running out and not firings.

This has become a major problem and really pisses me off about the state of American healthcare.

Maria, Brandi Rhodes, Maryse... it's a pattern that lines up with what my mom has complained about since I was a kid, doctor's don't listen to women and pass off their problems like it's nothing if the simple tests don't show something. This country needs a major health overhaul and not insurance reform like The ACA/Obamacare.

No wonder they both disappeared, it's one of the hardest things being so intertwined with a person and then to realize you are no longer prepared to continue that relationship. I hope her hopes of being friendly and amicable are for both of them.

Man moved to Bulgaria though, I wish him well.

It's why the FCC nominee was blocked for 3 years, Biden couldn't get a pick in until September of 2023, almost his entire term they blocked him from having a functioning FCC because stuff like this scares some people.

Saw this on the interwebs, I had a chuckle...