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kyle-moore 2 months ago
mean while bro requires a phone number to give your location to the feds
There seem to be a coordinated attack on freedom of speech an privacy all over Europe as the war drums start beating. Someone once said: When fiat fails they take you to war. Lets pray the whole edifice of fiat crumble with a whimper not a bang. View quoted note →
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Libertadd 2 months ago
The dystopian merkelist marxist schit schow of Naziland just gets worse.
Hey @gladstein, I think in the case of reposting from mostr (mastodon), it's better when you quote the post and provide your own commentary, because otherwise this is directing people to try to reply to Signal, but Signal will never see our replies (afaik).
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Roboto 2 months ago
Think of it like 50% attack on freedom if they get enough people to join the control system we will be force into it
I'd still be more anonymous and hidden exchanging messages in some random YouTube Minecraft video than using that government-sponsored app.
Of course. There's that old saying: "don't bite the hand that feds you". It seems signal has been receiving less government funding in the past years, might explain their sudden concern for privacy.
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kyle-moore 2 months ago
either that or just virtue signaling about privacy so people mistakenly use it.
Isn’t the whole point of Signal exactly to be useful inside these authoritarian regimes, with it’s end-to-end encryption? Then why would you pull out of the market, when the use case finally has it’s time to shine? Seems when the water gets too hot, you leave.
They just want to drive people crazy with posts like that. If anything, EVERYONE who uses Facebook, Twitter, etc. would have to confirm their identity, but that is currently completely impossible in terms of resources and technology. Every post along these lines is only intended to stir people up. If you don't want to reveal your identity, then you simply don't do it, and that's that.
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Not sure 2 months ago
The same way they ban tiktok. They go for massive fines to all platform and network carriers. The TikTok ban is the blueprint to ban anything. Even Bitcoin network. Nothing is immune to this ban unless you have your own network backbone like China.
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Not sure 2 months ago
Come to think of it. TikTok ban also is blueprint for governments to force Signal to open up back door and concession etc. full stack ban is a death blow.
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Mese 2 months ago
You're right. Shooting some politician at a rally or something would definitely unite me and my fellow Germans under a common vision of privacy and sovereignty. Or maybe we already share the same ideas about everything already. All the time we just lacked the guns so we can all meet with them and take our government hostage or something like that. I assume there even wouldn't be any superior military presence around if that happened. Intriguing thoughts, I guess we'll never find out.
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jhog57 2 months ago
you never had a chance at privacy or sovereignty as you gave up your firearms
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BTC-Satan 2 months ago
spell the end ? Ended about a decade ago.
Because Meredith Whittaker likes it out of jail. True privacy messenger can not have a company behind it, just the open source code. And not require a phone number. I never used Signal, went straight to SimpleX.
Indeed. Having a company behind it is a central point of failure. It should be pure math and code. I will look into SimpleX. Still I find bending the knee at the first signs of resistance a sign of weak character. Perhaps disbanding the company behind Signal and distributing the source code everywhere would be the better answer.
Nonsense. Registration registers and identity cards have been standard elsewhere for decades. Digital ID in the UK is just a kind of smartphone identity card. It has nothing to do with ID verification on the internet or for online services.
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jhog57 2 months ago
lives eternally as a legend