Only if people understood the class interests involved and whose interest the Government cares more about & tries to enforce. Unfortuanely, we don’t talk about C-word anymore and pretend they don’t exist!

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It’s not just about the production capacity of India. India currently has two vaccines - Covishield (Oxford & AstraZeneca developed, manufactured by Serum Institute of India) and Covaxin (Indian Council of Medical Research & Bharat BioTech, manufactured by Bharat BioTech). Sputnik V is a new addition from Russia.

While it would be wise to blame the country for the under production of Covaxin, because it’s a home grown vaccine and public money was involved in its development. It could’ve been manufactured by more than one manufacturer in the country.

But, in case of Covishield, only SII has the license to manufacture it. If the IP rules are to be waived, it could be manufactured by others in the country.

The whole point is, countries like India have the capability to mass produce vaccines to satisfy domestic needs and to help other countries that don’t have the necessary facilities to do so. The rich countries have secured enough vaccines (How rich countries are making the pandemic last longer) and in the case of UK, they have clause in the vaccine contracts to give it more preference, should the producer face shortages (link).

https://www.newsclick.in/Boris-Johnson-Walks-Away-laughing-India-Serum-Institute-Tow

Johnson plays hard ball. He has no time for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. “The reason we have the vaccine success is because of capitalism, because of greed, my friends,” Johnson said in a recent call with British MPs.

Sad reality is,

• people are still going to watch it no matter what
• Qatar at most gets a slap on the wrist
• FIFA makes even more money

Every single channel is coming up with its own streaming platform and shitty originals on it. Piracy is here to stay!

#2 rule: definitely don’t host this shit in the US :D

Even if it was outside the US, wouldn’t the entertainment industry people or through the US government, try to get the foreign government to do something about it?

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@dessalines@lemmy.ml How big does the csv file get?

But, signal has the concept of sealed sender (https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/), where signal doesn’t know who is sending the messages.

This is when the government asked for data from Signal, “The only Signal user data we have, and the only data the US government obtained as a result, was the date of account creation and the date of last use – not user messages, groups, contacts, profile information, or anything else.” (https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-as-the-world-moves-forward/)

With my phone number, they could tie it to other services, but not with the contacts in Signal itself.

This is something related to how groups are secured - https://signal.org/blog/signal-private-group-system/

But, we could install a version of signal client that’s not compromised, which sends as little as possible, encrypted. So, a compromised server could deny the requests, because the client was modified or it couldn’t work with the encrypted content the way it expected. This would automatically raise red flags, because the app doesn’t work anymore. Has something like this happened?

And for the deploying modified versions to targeted devices. I know it’s possible through orders or compromised server, but has it happened? If so, any sources regarding that.