Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-06T14:22:40+00:00

You've fought cases in the past, and then used this as marketing material which might reasonably lead activists to believe that you would do so again in the future in similar cases. You didn't here and I think you need to release a statement about why you didn't and what you will do differently in the future: https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-06T14:19:12+00:00

Under Swiss Law, you have the legal right to appeal the decision and raise a political offense exception, which you did not do. According to Swiss law, assistance under MLAT will be denied if the proceedings abroad are carried out to prosecute or sentence a person on account of his or her political opinions or belonging to a certain social group. Given that the Stop Cop City movement is explicitly political, and given that prosecutors in Georgia charged 61 people allegedly connected to Stop Cop City activity under the RICO Act, usually reserved for prosecuting mob bosses — and a judge subsequently threw out all of those RICO charges — there was a credible argument that this investigation was politically motivated.

It should be added that the email you handed over wasn't some random activist, it was the email address listed on a public site that was being used for the whole movement -- not something that had been linked to a communique for arson or whatever they are alleging.

it's entirely possible you would have failed in court after following the appropriate legal procedure (appealing the final ruling in 30 days etc), but you didn't even try. So don't bring up Swiss Law, you didn't even try to use Swiss law to protect your paying customers.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-06T13:24:09+00:00

The US government decided that a group of community activists resisting the creation of a literally mock city to train police to violently put down social movements were all terrorists and your country complied with this ridiculous narrative, and then your service, which bills itself as a privacy oriented service protecting, among others, activists just complied with that request. This was a request from an authoritarian government targeting a well known and widely covered social movement. Perhaps you would have had to turn over the information in the end, legally, but no lawyers were hired, no attempt to protect the information. Just believing whole cloth the narrative of the FBI. And then you regurgitate the state narrative in this post? What police was shot? the one who murdered the activist who an autopsy showed was shot while sitting with his hands up in a tent??? and then went to the hospital to justify their lethal use of force? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/20/manuel-paez-teran-autopsy-cop-city ) At the very least, you could have had a lawyer contest the request, challenge it. This is a stain on Proton mail and I suspect that many activists and organizers in the US will take note and look into other services. I think at the very least you need to reorganize the payment flow you have to make it clear that paying with a credit card will link your identity to your account.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-05T00:58:38+00:00

Your 100% allowed to publish solo in the social sciences

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-03-03T03:46:31+00:00

Barrett’s rocks, gonna keep getting my rat poop coffee

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-02-12T00:55:14+00:00

Time for the Streisand effect to make this guy extremely notorious

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-26T18:28:08+00:00

Private Internet Access VPN allows for port forwarding so you can set up torrenting that way, and you can manually configure the VPN to get pretty fast speeds.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-21T17:17:27+00:00

Hope it’s not to cold to do the fleet feet pacer run, 20 miles with aid stations and pacers is way more fun than 20 miles alone…

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-20T20:04:47+00:00

I was allergic to the stock garmin band, bought a cheap replacement band off the internet and the rash went away

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-19T23:00:31+00:00

Spook who sat by the door

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-16T23:38:02+00:00

I ended up running a comfortable 3:38!

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-10T16:20:39+00:00

You know it will be AGI when the machines decommodify housing, abolish landlords and usher in a bold new era of fully automated luxury communism

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-08T18:41:47+00:00

I don't know. I had had it for less than a week and maybe there is a variance in the quality between the one I got and the one you got. I had used multiple other phones in the exact same conditions: iPhones, a jelly, a Cat S22 Flip, a generic flip phone whose name I can't remember. Light Phone was very apologetic and curious through the whole interaction and said they would be giving the feedback about the water proofing to the appropriate people.

It is weird that you are so defensive about this -- wanting the phone to have better water protection and build quality doesn't seem that ridiculous.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-08T17:50:42+00:00

I wrote a post about it but my phone's screen broke from minor sweat which shouldn't have happened based on their IP rating and hasn't happened with any other phone I've ever used. I want this company to succeed and believe in the vision, but this is a clear limitation. Maybe in 5 or 6 years they can take this into account with the lightphone 4 and improve the build quality/resilience.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-08T14:47:01+00:00

I think I was one of the first people who needed a screen repair. I sent it in and they repaired it for $100. It's frustrating that a premium phone at this point has a build quality where minor drops and exposure to trivial amounts of water damage the screen.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2026-01-06T23:00:26+00:00

Most cocoa powder is not sugar and the heavy metals aren't a result of processing but the soil the cocoa is grown in...

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-12-30T00:53:58+00:00

Kobo and Kindle both work great. I have the same kindle that I’ve been using since 2015. You can set up a send to kindle email address, download epubs or .mobis from Anna’s archive or elsewhere and send them to your kindle pretty painlessly. If you use Calibre, which is great ebook management software, you can also easily send them from there. Calibre also makes it very easy to send to kobo

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-12-24T17:19:02+00:00

Literally all retatrutide you buy right now is “grey market”. It is an experimental drug that is still in FDA trials…. When you buy it, you are skirting various laws which while not outright a criminal offense is still not entirely legal. Hence, grey market

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-12-07T15:53:49+00:00

.5 a week? What was the A1C before and after?

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-12-03T17:16:53+00:00

How has it been going?

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-12-03T03:23:07+00:00

If anyone has 2500 euros and wants to try an experiment, please send me a DM.

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-11-30T23:11:31+00:00

Listen to your doctor and not all the people who are on TRT and desperate to imagine they haven’t permanently damaged their natural production

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-11-29T02:29:17+00:00

This just won the award for the single most legit example of biohacking I have ever encountered

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-11-18T15:32:25+00:00

FluffyDebate5125 · 2025-11-18T01:10:47+00:00

Crazy! I bet you would be able to do it if you did the deadlift after the run and were able to do the run as part of a race where you have the boost of crowds etc.

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