Hello everyone :wave: So I am relatively new to Privacy Guides but I must say I just love the community in that we have such a hodgepodge of cultures, political views, and a lot of people who care deeply about humans and human rights as that is kind of the core ethos of privacy. There’s been some v…

We settled on splitting up the news. Hopefully this satisfies some of your requests here too. [image] News category Announcements Hello all We introduced a News category on the forum to split up discussions on the news and more fundamental privacy discussions. This hopef…

Yeah, but my thought is why not make an accessible lane to direct folks to when topics inevitably veer off of the privacy tracks as we saw with some recent concerns. There will always be folks who don’t handle topics like this well after 10+ years of Twitter Facebook conditioning. At least here the…

I don’t think any changes are necessary. Political discussions are allowed and always have been, because privacy is a political topic. What makes people upset isn’t “political topics” themselves, but people soapboxing about American politics. This is the kind of behavior that isn’t really allowed, …

Typically on a big rise there is a knee jerk reaction to correct it. This has happened in the past here as well. If the issue becomes persistent, or the size of the active forum drastically grows, then I’d agree a sectioned off area might be better. However, at this side, I’d rather argue that more…

One of the reasons that this is one of the very few forums I’m active in, is because of the lack of politics. I prefer it that way. The problem with political discussions is that they take over any platform that they are tolerated on, and I don’t want to see that here. It’s also worth bearing in m…

I agree that discussing one countries politics is lame. You say politics is not brought up but it is brought up. That’s why I considered making a special lane to enable those discussions but avoid having it take over the other areas of the forum. Making it quite normal to call out topics and convers…

Given legislative decisions (which are inherently political) can have privacy implications, perhaps we could categories posts that are Country or even region specific (the State of California seems to be ahead in terms of privacy respecting legislation). Although PG is based in the U.S., I believe t…

I strongly oppose making a political section as it will mean that the common ground that privacy interested people have will become a source of conflict and it will inevitably lead to purges. I am personally, very, very right wing and obviously tons of privacy people are very, very left wing. If we…

[image] benm: I am personally, very, very right wing and obviously tons of privacy people are very, very left wing. If we keep things focused directly on privacy, we can still benefit and have a healthy environment. Yeah, I actually think this points out my greatest concern with doing somethi…

One of my favorite things about this forum is that its relatively free of any sort of political discussion. The fact last week’s thread wasn’t immediately locked was a huge oversight from the moderators. It was the first time I’ve seen political vitriol in the ~1.5 years I’ve been here. I think in …

Everything is political, especially privacy technology and software security work. Eleanor Saitta (@dymaxion@infosec.exchange) Repeat after me: all technical problems of sufficient scope or impact are actually political problems first. The very act of tryin…

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We settled on splitting up the news. Hopefully this satisfies some of your requests here too.

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