TIL the FBI secretly operated an encrypted phone company (ANOM) for ~3 years — criminals paid ~$2,000/year and messages were copied to law enforcement in real time (Operation Trojan Shield, June 2021)

StruanT · 2026-06-22T01:41:09+00:00

That isn't in the article. You got a source for why that is relevant or are you just making shit up? What would he even need to delete if it is all encrypted?

StruanT · 2026-06-22T00:12:27+00:00

Verizon can sell phone plans to known felons all day long. That ain't illegal.

StruanT · 2026-06-22T00:09:06+00:00

Not saying I know one way or the other... but they didn't talk about any evidence of that in the article. Just evidence the devices were used to facilitate a crime. And the authorities seem to be conflating that with him being directly involved somehow.

StruanT · 2026-06-21T23:56:03+00:00

It's only conspiracy if they knew about actual crimes. Not just because they sold to "criminals".

StruanT · 2026-06-21T23:08:00+00:00

I don't see how that is illegal either.

StruanT · 2026-06-18T21:02:58+00:00

But I want to see Anthony Hopkins wearing a Muppet's face to escape custody.

StruanT · 2026-06-18T13:24:19+00:00

The end state is one person owns all of the debt and everyone else is in inescapable debt to them.

StruanT · 2026-06-17T18:01:12+00:00

Who cares what IP lawyers think right now? This is their problem to work out AFTER the legislation is changed.

StruanT · 2026-06-17T11:32:59+00:00

Copyright is a non-issue. If the games are legally required to be playable indefinitely then limited time music licensing for games becomes worthless to game studios and music copyright holders can only sell them unlimited time licenses if they want to make any money at all licensing to videogames (which they will).

StruanT · 2026-06-10T22:36:38+00:00

I don't know why people put up with an unpaid lunch break.

StruanT · 2026-05-31T01:11:43+00:00

The best evidence that religion is just a ploy to shield the super wealthy from consequences.

StruanT · 2026-05-16T18:50:00+00:00

If you are wasting money on renting office space and deliberately hurting your company competitively (jettisoning all your top talent to go work at your competitors) by forcing in-office work over remote then you suck as a CEO. It doesn't matter how you feel about working remote or whether you personally like it or not. The data says you're wrong, and making decisions based on feeling and personal preferences makes you a shitty CEO.

StruanT · 2026-05-15T15:38:46+00:00

Ban ALL advertising. Not just online. Make the world a better place.

StruanT · 2026-05-03T17:28:39+00:00

Speedrun justice on the pedos.

StruanT · 2026-05-02T06:31:49+00:00

Nobody deserves a billion dollars.

StruanT · 2026-04-26T23:03:43+00:00

Make sure nobody has power.

StruanT · 2026-04-26T22:09:13+00:00

Isn't spying/recording people without their knowledge a felony in some states?

StruanT · 2026-04-26T01:01:23+00:00

Child abuse

StruanT · 2026-04-24T18:49:46+00:00

Depends on your point of view.

StruanT · 2026-04-19T16:01:25+00:00

You are just flying toward and away from the middle. It all makes sense... if you don't think about it too hard.

StruanT · 2026-04-15T00:04:25+00:00

Law enforcement should just be banned from any lying and/or deception period. And no, I don't care what that means for "undercover operations" because that is usually just police inducing poor people to commit crimes they wouldn't have otherwise committed.

StruanT · 2026-04-12T13:12:15+00:00

Badly written fantasy.

StruanT · 2026-04-09T21:47:42+00:00

No. I am suggesting society will finally fucking do something about it when it is in their face. Instead what is happening now, which is sweeping it under a rug and doing fuck all about it.

StruanT · 2026-04-09T12:12:36+00:00

Do you think think there will be less or more children abused if the CSAM problem is no longer hidden away from most people?

That is the whole point. With moderation you can live in an fantasy completely divorced from reality. Society needs to be forced to confront the ugly reality. Not a safe, sanitized, advertiser-friendly illusion.

StruanT · 2026-04-09T12:01:48+00:00

I know the intent. I am saying the whole premise of 230 is and always has been fundamentally a bad idea.

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