ProtonMail Won’t Stop the Feds

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A 21-second montage shows increasingly exaggerated surveillance imagery—drones, satellite maps, aerial targeting systems, tracking graphics, and crowds being monitored—beneath the captions “I use protonmail so that the feds cant track me” and “meanwhile the feds:”. The joke is that using a privacy-focused email service gives the speaker false confidence, while the authorities are portrayed as having overwhelming surveillance capabilities; the music heightens the dramatic, absurd escalation. EN: A 21-second montage shows increasingly exaggerated surveillance imagery—drones, satellite maps, aerial targeting systems, tracking graphics, and crowds being monitored—beneath the captions “I use protonmail so that the feds cant track me” and “meanwhile the feds:”. The joke is that using a privacy-focused email service gives the speaker false confidence, while the authorities are portrayed as having overwhelming surveillance capabilities; the music heightens the dramatic, absurd escalation.

• @gentoomemes / 5391 2023-07-21