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Meanwhile On Grad
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I'm pretty sure the concern of Venezuela and Russia is not in having open and free democracy, but preventing it.
How convenient, then, that the US controlled IT infrastructure they target is the same IT infrastructure that dissidents use to communicate and that totalitarian governments can't track. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
Well I'm not going to argue against any of that, I'm certainly not a fan of Putin. I still hate Signal though and hate that it gets recommended and marketed as a secure messenger when it's clearly an unsafe tool for dissidents.
We still don't have mature and widely used fully decentralized P2P messenger apps. I suspect that Signal is part of an effort to prevent that, I imagine all it takes is to ever so slightly sabotage projects, like hire a guy who works on an open source project, or buy it, or invest a bit of money into marketing the controllable alternative.
So putting this critique about Signal in an article about repression is worthwhile and important. At least in an "enemy of my enemy" sort of way 😉