Official Canary Notice (announcements)

submitted ago by Voat

We have had 0 (zero) gag orders, National Security requests, FISA orders, injunctions, super-injunctions, publication bans, nor any free-speech prohibiting sanction against us, nor against Voat, nor against any signed-in user of Voat, nor against any guest user of Voat.

Please refer to the Last edit time for the most recent effective date of this notice.

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fluxusp ago

I got an uncomfortable feeling from "official canary notice" but everything is OK. Good.

GIF-lLL-S0NG ago

You have reason to be worried. Compare the meaning of: 'We have 0" with "We have had 0".

SaneGoatiSwear ago

  1. the canary's only good up to the last posting. it's a semantic change. the sentence reduced reads "we have had 0 to the date of the last posting/updating of this notification."

  2. THAT SAID. there is something very ominous missing from this canary.

@puttitout OFFICIAL AND ONLY PING ABOUT THIS the canary is missing the honeypot/trap statement. OFFICIAL STATEMENT REQUIRED.

UPDATE: trap/honeypot aren't solid words. need better words to make it legally sound.

UPDATE 2: well, maybe there is a better wording for it, see my reply to @calliecat above

3nk1 ago

You'd bitch if they hung you with a new rope huh?

SaneGoatiSwear ago

and you'd sing like a canary when they're torturing your loved ones for info you don't even know.

3nk1 ago

I hate to poke holes in your tin hat, but if a government level entity is targeting YOU, you are going to lose, this ain't the movies. Sure precautions make mass info scoops less likely to catch you, and they help with pissed past acquaintances. Don't do shit for alphabet agencies when they know your name and want you.

SaneGoatiSwear ago

the point is to know about it.

tin hats don't work. faraday cages do.

also, if you didn't know,

voat servers are in the u.s., and ALL data that goes through u.s. cables (including all of voat), is entirely saved on NSA harddrives, and combed through by an a.i. which flags things for agents to check.

that said, if they want to gag voat, it's now set up that at least we'll know about it within a month.

otherwise we would never know. ever.

also, the trap/honeypot has not bee placed. waiting upon dev statement.

GIF-lLL-S0NG ago

the United States have had slavery. the United States have slavery. Maybe this explain the grammatical difference?

DeltaBravoTango ago

Both examples are wrong