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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
Here is their response:
and this:
Content of Apology
Dear Privacy Fans,
Last week, on Friday, a post was made on our social media profiles which goes against our core values as team members and as a company. This post was made in poor judgement, without stopping and examining the underlying racist and sexist problems posed by this meme template, and it does not represent the culture and environment of the Tutanota Team. After a period of approximately 30 minutes the offensive post was removed from all platforms and a ābriefā apology was posted.
This brief apology does not go far enough to address this mistake and we would like to update everyone on how we are working to address this issue internally and how we will make sure that this does not happen again. As a company we are working with all of our team members to foster a culture that respects diversity in all forms. This is both on a personal level between colleagues, but also at an institutional level by working to create structures which allow diversity to flourish.
I meanā¦ itās an apology, I donāt know what I was expecting. this still feels like a bigger, redder flag than the one cop who called them a honeypot (and at the same time didnāt seem to know what tuta is) ā is this really a service I feel safe recommending marginalized people use? probably not, they should use signal. is it even suitable for the āgrandma & drug dealerā use case? that questionās a bit more difficult.
could they really have said or done anything to fix this? shit, I donāt know. maybe I need to dig a lot more into who and what tuta actually is. I ran into one of their (former?) developers on mastodon and they seem to outwardly be marginalized and antifascist. if thatās what tutaās composed of internally, then Iām a lot more able to trust them. until I do that checking though, I donāt think Iāll recommend tuta to anyone who might need it ā the opsec risk of trusting your keypair to a company run by assholes is very high, especially in the current climate.
I agree. Currently I canāt recommend any email providers. Hopefully Posteo works out, but at this point I am strongly considering just starting my own competitor in the vein of Signal messenger. Basically āwe think of email as a public good.ā
Iād love to work on something like that. have you checked out any of soatokās work on federated key infrastructure? I can dig up some links if you havenāt and it seems interesting; I understand soatok is developing it with the possibility that it could be an enabling technology for federated end-to-end encrypted email in mind.
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deleted this because i realized i canāt even explain how email works, why am i proposing anything