Most of the recent news and opinions on social media seemed to be the epitome of dystopia which I never thought I would be living oneday. It sickens me.

@shibaprasad Social media is just to tip of the iceberg. Look at what Google is doing with censorship via Google, YouTube, and threatening to delete Google Play and associated accounts, rendering Android phones useless.

@realcaseyrollins @shibaprasad

It is really disheartening - there is so much ignorance, intolerance and hatred being spewed out under the blanket of 'free speech'.

I stealth visited some sites in the periphery of a large right wing organization, and was dismayed by what you can read in their publicly viewable feeds.

They are empowering a lot of bad things. The bad example is even coming from the top, with some current politicians in power being astoundingly creepy, corrupt and borderline criminals.

Their underlings shut up and don't comment or oppose, since the man in top has support and votes that keeps their party alive, and for now, in power.

Big Tech situation, which Casey mentioned, is another huge bunch of issues.

Corporations that use all kinds of legally allowed tricks to keep their profits untaxed (Apple, Amazon). Others that spy in every service they provide their users for free (Google).

Android being so closely tied to Google is a huge concern. Thankfully there's sometimes an option - some models can take alternative ROMs like the ones developed by LineageOS (formerly called CyanogenMod).

https://www.lineageos.org/

If you install their rom, you have a choice of using an image *without* the google android frameorks. Which means too you are giving up on usign their Gapps, mail, etc.

These can be accessed via browser, and apps can be picked up at F-Droid and other alternative android app stores.

I have CyanogenMod installed and running on my HP Touchpad, along with its original WebOS (a wonderful operating system, way ahead in its time and design, compared to the two major ones now).

@design_RG @realcaseyrollins

Thanks for the info Rob. You are helpful as always!

Not only the hate speeches of RW Fascists which is bothering me. There have been some disastrous news in my country over the past 1 week. And some of the reaction of many people have been just sickening!

Here is the incident:
https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/dr-priyanka-reddy-case-the-brutal-rape-and-murder-that-left-entire-nation-in-shock-585940

and here the the sick reaction:
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/daniel-shravan-remark-hyderabad-man-slammed-on-twitter-for-cooperate-in-rape-remark-2143434

Not only that, the name of the victim is one of the top searched results in a porn site. How sick can it be man?! Really feeling ashamed to be a male.

@shibaprasad @design_RG Firstly, the fascists are not the ones spewing hate speech, they are the ones suppressing it.

Secondly, the only reason right wing speech zones are prevalent online among the right wing community is because the real fascists keep banning them.

(Without banned alt-righters, conservatives and other ideological extremists, Gab would be either dead or boring.)

I do understand wanting a kind online community, but this makes all free speech zones very mean, in effect.