"If you don't have anything to hide, why would you be against this?" -- Americans
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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If you need a Chat use the anonymous https://securebit.chat/, showing the middle finger to control initiatives.
I think reinventing SimpleX Chat is already a lost cause
Looks like a scam, no, thanks.
Always keep in mind that your own state is almost always the group of actors having the most power over you. They are the ones who can hurt you or just make you jump though an infinite amount of hoops without any fear of consequence.
Normal people really can just ignore everyone who is or comes after "Hackers". Focus on your own government. That's where the real risks are.
Love the weird scale of threat depicted here.
-smol bean megacorporation
-regular bean fbi man
-Big Hacker, the big hacker lobbyist
-giant evil FOREIGNER with their evil UNIFORM and MEDALS
-ect, other guys, artist kind of blew his load drawing all those evil medals
Like the scale implies I should be most worried about the biggest guy, but I live in America. The feds are the biggest threat to me. You can tell this wasn't drawn by a leftist because...well, almost everything, but mostly because of how normal they seem to think the FBI is, and how small a deal being spied on by them apparently is compared to being spied on by someone that doesn't have the capacity to send a death squad to my apartment at any moment.
I also love the idea that all these people are waiting, specifically, for YOUR phone. This is masterful propaganda. Only thing missing is Putin drawn with bat wings, bloody fangs, and black eyes, and Zelensky as an angel blocking Putin.
Almost as though the cartoonist just drew a load of their stock characters and then added labels instead of putting thought into it.
The content grind comes for all
Yeah the choice of scale is very weird, why are hackers larger than the FBI? Also doesn't really seem mutually exclusive
Because whoever made this (naively) trusts their government
That's only because the FBI guy and the Oppressive Regime guy have become the same guy
that’s a good image to convey the message to people propagandized by the us, but yes, "fbi" and "repressive regimes" are one and the same here
your domestic government poses much more of a threat to your privacy than some foreign "repressive regime" far away
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oh hey, its me, E T C
This illustration is completely wrong.
The man representing hackers isn't in a fur suit.
Furries never hurt anyone. We don't bite hard 🤭🦊
Oh shit not the ETC
The scale is backwards lol.
"Authoritarian governments" as if the US is isn't exactly fucking that
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We're already at the "ETC" guy
As far as threats go, I would swap FBI and Hackers.
"etc" it's Israel
Apple seems too small and innocent in this image
my little trillion-dollar corporation can't be this cute!
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What’s the ETC or behind it? What else could be worse?
And why isn’t the FBI part of the repressive regimes man?
It's a respectable and necessary "intelligence agency" when we do it, nefarious and unjust spying when they do it. Same old propaganda.
the cia? oligarch pedophiles?
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Should be "scammers" not "hackers".
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