• FlashMobOfOne
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    492 days ago

    I mean, I’d love to send him something except I don’t want to be on a watch list.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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      232 days ago

      Couldn’t you send an anonymous mail to him?

      Just drive (or take public transit) to some town/city nearby and send it from there, use a printer that doesn’t have those yellot tracking dots, don’t leave fingerprints, drop the mail in an unattended post office box.

        • @rockSlayer
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          81 day ago

          The EFF was attempting to keep track of this, but through FOIA requests they learned that every major brand uses dots.

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          102 days ago

          People have been saying the “Brother” brand of printers don’t have them, but I cannot confirm this since I never used them, nor do I have ways to detect yellow dots.

          There are also programs that would add random yellow dots before you print it, so the yellot dot tracking would become useless since its flooded with extra yellot dots.

          • @[email protected]
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            15 minutes ago

            This would only work if you only send 1 page. Otherwise, they can likely compare the two and see where the dots are the same.

        • @Cort
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          72 days ago

          Dot matrix doesn’t have the yellow ID dots, but it is just dots.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        102 days ago

        Maybe, but I doubt most people are going through any kind of process to anonymize it.

      • @robocallOPM
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        52 days ago

        It has to have a valid return address or else it will be rejected. I haven’t found out if people from abroad are allowed to send him letters yet.

        • @Passerby6497
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          82 days ago

          So? Put the local police station as the return address for giggles.

    • @robocallOPM
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      52 days ago

      Someone else mentioned a watch list to me. Who’s list would you be on, and who would have access to it?

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        222 days ago

        I think it’s just assumed that government authorities are taking the info of people who make public statements of support for Mangione and putting them under increased scrutiny.

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          We do have a really arbitrary no fly list people end up on sometimes without knowing the reason at all.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            132 days ago

            No, like everybody willing to pass their name through the prison’s mail system.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 days ago

        I’ve assumed that since bush 2 anything anti capitalist, anti imperialist, anti fascist puts you on a list. What list? Who knows.

        With the advance of technology these days I think the “list” is more plausible than ever.

        And then you know, snowdens leaks pretty much stated that the NSA is spying domestically without warrants.