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It’s extremely hard to be charitable online, when you have instances like these:
I’m sorry that I cannot “be kind” to the intolerant.
How can non-enforceable laws be laws?
Your majesty, the peasants are rebelling, they have overtaken the army, what do we do?
You get sued no matter what authoritarian country your tools get used in, it doesn’t mean Signal Technology Foundation has to comply with French law, as they are not beholden by their jurisdiction. That is why I used North Korea as an e.g.: Kim Jong Un can’t sue the world.
Privacy and encryption are inalienable human rights, even in authoritarian hells like North Korea. There’s is no reason to comply with bs laws.
If you don’t see mocking a fascist government as a form of protest, I’m not so sure how I can help you see the harm in leaving.
That last paragraph is the problem, they know they are a line of defense for many vulnerable people in France. So leaving them to their own devices is a form of complicit acceptance.
They refused to operate ON a country with a hostile anti encryption law as a threat.
Signal could have mocked the France government for being authoritarian fascist censorious anti-mathematics pieces of turd, but leave USERS stuck in France with the danger of the government’s bs law.
A metaphor for ease of comprehension: Signal threatens a farmer for hunting chicken down, by ceasing all freeing-chicken-from-the-farm operations. Not killing the farmer, but leaving the chicken without the tools to liberate themselves.
Yes, I read Animal Farm.
Back when I was younger and naïve, I would Nicolas Cage OP.
I’m now more mature and open minded, and I can say I wholesomely agree with @Zak@lemmy.world’s statement ITT.
Technologists have very little patience for people that are technologically illiterate. And when you’re fighting to liberate people against corporations that send hitlists against you, patience runs faster. My hope is that people like OP can empathize that while yes, public technologies can be harmful and downright hostile, they can take their time to comprehend concepts technologist took their time to write down and document for.
If you want private conversations with peers, it must be encrypted, it must be forward secret, and it must be authenticatable.
XMPP, SimpleXchat, & Signal are the only three that fit these specifications.
I have the first two (check my bio👈😎👈), the latter I do not trust.
Glad we agree then.
Defed all intolerance.