Right, so. All of that said, there are ways to keep things safe. Never completely, but to greater or lesser extents. One is to use the mirror network.

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This is a network that's closed only to imPorts. The government can't access it, the media can't, the public can't. So that's useful.

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Another way is by filtering your posts. This makes it so that what you write, or say, is only visible to the people you want it to be visible to. It's not really safe against good hackers, but it keeps the average person out.