Nazi gold didn't disappear after the Nazis fell. They still pocketed it all, despite knowing where all that wealth came from, and did fuck all to help rebuild Europe.

Other things like their appeasing attitude towards Russia, reluctance to allow weapons exports to Ukraine, and willingness to export weapons to awful regimes are all unambiguously current.

Oh look, one of Lemmy's many resident tankies.

Oh look, another one who's brain has been melted by propaganda.

Why is this world and timeline so hell bent on recreating dystopian sci fi novels from the 80s?

Because they were about late state capitalism.

Torment nexus go

Where’s that dude who was saying Proton was enabling terrorism for threatening to leave the country?

Holy shit. An actual interrobang.

This is like finding a shiny.

Tattorack uses octothorpe. It's not very effective!

I visited Switzerland just after the vaccines dropped. The Swiss COVID response far surpassed the response in the United States. They rolled out a nation-wide app for vaccination attestation, and any museum, restaurant, etc. could scan a QR code on someone's phone with a phone. But do they have a scary, socially reactionary subset of their population? Yes.

In some harmful ways they are fanatically culturally conservative. But they also care about community, sustainability, health, the well-being of children, environmental preservation, organization, and self-reliance. Being a small, rich, homogeneous, topographically-isolated country drives these characteristics.

Surveillance State developments are depressing but not surprising.

two factors:

1. those novels were warnings about the path we were on
2. dorkasses like musk and altman missed the allegorical point

First I’m finding out a ligature exists. Awesome.

Not really many second bests out there, Sweden bent over and wants to join the EU and the Netherlands has had a rocky history of seizing data-centres.

Switzerland is the last stand for true neutrality.

I mean to my knowledge the US hasn't tried to force encryption backdoors recently?

No but they’re still apart of the Five Eyes Alliance which regulates companies on how data is processed and handled.

If I’m not mistaken user data must be retained for 7 years under the five eyes alliance, I’ll try to find a source to this.

Edit - I think this describes the different alliances pretty well: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/guide-to-the-5-9-14-eyes-alliances/

Which has nothing to do with encryption?

Which has nothing to do with encryption?

You’re right it doesn’t dive into encryption however, given that the data is still accessible a government agency can surely decrypt it if they truly wanted to, even if it take them years.

a government agency can surely decrypt it if they truly wanted to

They can't. Not using any known technology. Even basic encryption like AES256 would take 10^50 years on a supercomputer. That's not even getting into quantum-resistant encryption.

Powers that would make the US blush!? Give me a fucking break. The US spies on all communication in the entire world.

Proton is a joke and their CEO is an obvious fascist. It was stupid to think a corporation is the answer to privacy anyways. They obey all countries rules and turn over your information the moment they are asked by governments.

The future of privacy in Switzerland is in the hands of the citizens. Let's hope they make the right decisions and encourage them to do so.

If these corporations really cared about privacy they would be promoting laws to make it enshrined in our constitutions. The reality is privacy is just another way to market to the masses who don't know better.

My cynical side says these "privacy" focused corporations not wanting privacy to be enshrined in law is because then every business would be privacy minded and their marketing advantage would quickly disappear.

Sweden bent over and wants to join the EU

Ah, to live in 1994 again.