Personally I think the comment could’ve been worded better as it can be interpreted either as

… is always the excuse for fascism …

(I.E. Fascists use the excuse, provably correct and can be generalised to authoritarianism in general) However I do see that it could potentially be taken the other way as

… is always the excuse for fascism …

(I.E only those who used the excuse are fascists, completely false) I used the principle of charity and assumed the inital argument was logical, though its understandable if others aren’t willing to do that

You seem to have made what’s known as a converse error in your logic:

The person you replied to said that

All fascist ideologies will use the argument of “Protecting the children”

You seem to have mistakingly confused that with the false claim

All arguments that use “Protecting the children” are made by fascist ideologies

And as such you have responded to a statement the commenter never made.

And equivalent mistake would be claim that since every time it rains it is cloudy, therefore whenever it is cloudy it is always raining. Honestly logical errors happen for everyone, I hope this helps.

Pretty much impossible, especially with so many eyes on the project. It is possible to intentionally introduce vulnerabilities into open source code and use that as a backdoor but for projects like tor keeping that hidden for long periods of time is incredibly difficult due to the number of people independently auditing the code.

Sneakernet is getting worse and worse these days, I’m learning the ancient art of astroprojecting into random people’s rooms to consume media.

Seems like it, I switched to my current instance explicitly to avoid dealing with this stuff

Sounds like the sort of content one would find on the fanfic site archive of our own

Yep, since I mostly pirate obscure games I don’t need to worry about the VPN. Lutris works great for fitgirl-repacks

Not sure who’s down voting you, its quite a valid option that, unlike google, is actually innovating in interesting ways.

Tools for backing up servers already exist: https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter But unfortunately discord can’t be easily scraped in one coordinated attempt unlike reddit due to the massive number of private servers and existing verification/anti-bot mechanisms. As a result, only the communities that have data hoarders will be actually archived.

Ublock origin and Facebook Container are a good start. I would recommend having a look through the most upvoted posts of this sub as well.

Huh, it seems it depends on the existing sources, I’m not particularly sure how that works

From what I see, there are 4 5 options on annas-archive.org

1. Use fast(but fee charging) direct download

2. Use ipfs

3. use torrents

4. Go to source pages (libgen and/or zlibrary)

5. Slow direct download [Edited]

It sounds like you clicked the link to the source as opposed to the mirrors

No, more like a mirror in that it hosts all of zlib and libgen’s content as well as providing torrent and ipfs links for the files (which they seed)

Anna’s archive acts as a drop in replacement for libgen and z-library, also doesn’t cost anything

Nope, just means that you can’t make over 200,000 US yearly if it has over 200,000 downloads