Very much this. See UK’s legislation for terrorism and activism and how it’s being used to squash peaceful protests for a current example.

What you should want instead is widespread independent journalism along with a transparent government, national broadcasting and a well educated, critically thinking society. If you try to control information by omission and restriction, you only make it more appealing as it seems like a cover-up. Example: how many times have you heard of the Epstein files in recent months and years? It could’ve been a grocery shopping list and the effect would’ve been the same because of how it’s been handled.

It’s the pro-china propaganda that’s been swarming Lemmy. Mind you, they are not pro communism, they are pro Chinese government.

If you find torrenting and running a VM too technical, I’m sorry to say you’re better off not trying to identify and remove any malicious code.

Don’t put yourself down and waste your money, you can get over the learning curve for this, it’s not that steep.

To elaborate, as the previous reply stated, running the cracked programs inside a virtual machine allows you to isolate an environment specifically for this usage. Configured properly (another reply went into more detail here), even if the cracked software has something malicious, it can’t harm you. So you can safely ignore wether there’s a virus or not.

Umm, no, they don’t. The PRC is about as far from communism as the US.

Run it inside a VM? If you’re suspicious or just worried, this would resolve most if not all of possible worries you may have.

Been rocking the app for months, this will be a nice refresh. Thank you!

Way to throw that big dick energy on OP’s face…

That’s true and I agree in both experience and principle. Them brutalist buildings do be ugly tho…

How do you go about finding and joining such a venture

It’s pronounced Jamaica

I honestly forget that frequently. My general attitude when any type of believer says something I consider obvious bullshit is to spend a couple of seconds thinking we’re in on a pretend joke until it hits me.