Meanwhile in Taiwan, the island’s equivalent of the Tiananmen massacre from the KMT dictatorship (the 228 incident) has its own memorial park and museum.

No need for a self-inflicted legitimacy crisis when you respect your citizens’ basic rights.

Not sure I’ve seen many reports of the USA jailing or disappearing its own citizens when they dare speak up about said atrocities.

So clearly- if I go to Washington DC and start protesting in the street on behalf of these people (who I’d agree are being persecuted unjustly, despite one of them being Australian), I’ll be taken away and jailed within minutes, right?

One of the main reasons I’ve switched over to feddit.de. Hope more instances have the sense to block servers that are openly pro-imperialism and pro-totalitarianism.

If they’re interested in having good-faith discussions, sure.

Hard to care about anything iMessage-related as long as it’s not cross-platform.

I’ve already done the same, can recommend it

Sure, though I like the idea of more explicitly supporting instances with better quality control.

Seems like there’s also no way around blocking individual users who openly support fascists.

No. The future of tech should be about getting more capabilities out of fewer (and/or less intrusive) screens. Would love to see more advances in e-ink displays and open-source, ‘ambient’ voice-controlled UIs.

I don’t see any downside at all if it’s layered on top of some other (very capable) keyboard-driven UI that can do all the same things.