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Sure, people like Trump will go to jail for his involvement.

And trump’s friends will also go to jail for what they did.

Whatever drugs you take, can I have some?

Ever heard the saying, „Your freedom ends where someone else’s begins“?

Exactly. Don’t give them a platform

It’s called „Gleichschaltung” worked very efficiently once before.

Why are so many of you silent? Can’t you see where this is heading, or do you just not care?

I wish there were more voices of reason coming from the US!

A lot of us in Europe are aware!

I’m fairly certain the next civil war will be caused by severe wealth disparity.

I wish I could just sit back and enjoy the circus from a safe distance, but the way this American dumpster fire affects the whole world just scares the hell out of me.

I’m not naive enough anymore for this kind of trust.

It certainly is the lesser evil though.

There’s a lot going on in the US that I never thought would happen and it just goes on and on and on. Every day I read something that scares me even more.

To me it’s not that absurd that open source projects could be affected. Wouldn’t be the first time they tried (EARN IT Act or how often they tried to get backdoors in encrypted data https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-nsa-attempting-to-insert-backdoors-into-encrypted-data )

To me it seems possible.

Yes, it’s open source, yes, it can be taken elsewhere and developed outside of the USA. It’s just that I’m extra cautious right now.

I agree with you, it’s not only the USA which is problematic, but currently the US is the country with the most power doing „shitty things“. That’s why you get extra bonus points.

Just a couple of examples

Red Hat Developed by a U.S.-based company.

Fedora A community-driven project sponsored by Red Hat.

Debian Originally founded in the U.S., with some legal ties to US regulations.

Slackware developed by Patrick Volkerding in the US

Since these distributions are developed or registered in the United States, they are subject to US laws, regulations, and export restrictions.

When I have a look at what’s happening right now in the US I’m not sure what kind of laws will suddenly appear which might affect privacy and security of any kind of software from there. That’s why I decided to avoid them as much as possible.

I will certainly go through your suggestions and have a look if I should change stuff (apart from proton, I’m sure about changing this one).

I listed the stuff I use and what I changed. There’s also a reason why I chose this specific Linux distro as I try to avoid as much as I can with the jurisdiction in the US, which means a lot of Linux distros are not an option anymore.

But that does not mean everyone needs to do the same. Do whatever you think is best.