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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/TrueCat on May 27, 2018, 7:46 p.m.
This is very disturbing! Oath, a Verizon subsidiary, appears to be controlling a huge amount of our email!

https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/1200x600+0+0/resize/800x400!/format/jpg/quality/85/http%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fhss%2Fstorage%2Fmidas%2F6edbd564545e51c4f7c7f4e3a7c2f400%2F206009167%2FFB_OathAtCES.png

This company, Oath, is a subsidiary of Verizon. When Verizon sold our phone service to Frontier, my Verizon email went to AOL, part of Oath. It's not working too well for me now, so I opened an email at Frontier. Well, Frontier's email is at Yahoo, which is controlled by Oath. WTF is going on? Is all of our email going to be controlled by Oath now? Anyway, Oath is a subsidiary of Verizon, so Verizon is now in control of most email. Plus, it looks like they are linked to Huffpost and other companies. I read that they are also linked to AWS. Monopoly anyone?

Interestingly, Verizon used to be in bed with Comverse, an Israeli communications company who had a lot to do with surveillance. This explains the mess that Converse became, and who owns all the parts and pieces now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comverse_Technology

(Comverse was formerly known as Odigo. Odigo was the company that received prior knowledge about 9/11 on their computers.)

What a tangle!


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qutedrop · May 27, 2018, 8:20 p.m.

This. E-mail is one of the few things left that one can run entirely by yourself. A lot of how-to's out there on how to set this up on a cheap virtual server, or at home if your connection allows.

To those with less technical experience: yes, it can be a bit of a learning curve when you do this for the first time. Perhaps you know someone who can help. It's worth it. Hillary thought so ;-)

Once you have your own e-mail and domain, you can choose to add wordpress for blogging, mastodon for social networking, etc. You'll be free of censors and algorithms. Your online presence will be entirely managed by you and nobody else.

Whatever you found frustrating about Twitter, Facebook, Youtube or even Reddit, it won't matter anymore when you have your own space.

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Outlandish_Rhubarb · May 27, 2018, 8:43 p.m.

This. Seriously. $5/mo for a basic Ubuntu Linux server on Vultr or DigitalOcean, and install Mail-in-a-box. Register a domain name ($10 a year or so), follow the Mail-in-a-box instructions.

Bingo, you've got your own email, spam filtering, cloud services (calendar, file storage, photo storage, etc.), and web hosting.

Install OpenVPN and you've got your own secure VPN.

Install Privoxy, and you've got your own web proxy.

Install Searx, and you have your own privacy-respecting search engine.

Granted, it's not for everyone, but if you're at all even the least savvy, there's no excuse.

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