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davidagain ,

I take that as a compelling recommendation for Signal.

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Glad it at least seems easy to circumvent with a VPN

bitwolf ,

Time to run some proxies for these oppressed people.

crawancon ,

hexbear users will prob say some dumbass take like “yes! block that American pig dog shit! it frees us up to focus on telegram!”

Buelldozer ,
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

I’ve already read several comments just like that over on .ml.

communism ,
@communism@lemmy.ml avatar

Making up a guy to be mad at. Meanwhile the US is a bastion of privacy of course

eldavi ,

you should let that strawman get out of your head; he’s living rent-free there.

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

Legitimate countries don’t need to ban communications platforms.

Korkki ,

Is tiktok ok?

neuracnu ,
@neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Does ByteDance publish TikTok’s transmission protocol to demonstrate transparency?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol

eldavi ,

bytedance offered the government unfettered access and moved their entire infrastructure to the united states; it was more transparent than anything else out there.

neuracnu ,
@neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Do you have any citation for that?

eldavi ,

it was in their initial filing when they started the lawsuit to defend themselves.

i’ve been sealioned too much on the lemmyverse so you’re going to have to do your own googling.

Transporter_Room_3 ,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

He said “communications platforms” not “misinformation, social engineering, and mass data collection platform masquerading as a social media platform”

halcyoncmdr ,
@halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

I’d say social media platforms are an entire different beast.

Facebook is not the same as Facebook Messenger for instance.

fubo ,

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