> Odd for government to go after chat apps and online encryption when they can't stop child sexual abuse in those places where it happens the most.
No, its totally consistent with the State's MO; using the 'Helen Lovejoy' argument [1] is entirely specious reasoning when even the most superficial analysis on the perpetrators of said crime is done... but its not meant to appeal to reason, rather its meant to create a knee-jerk reaction when someone tries to refute it before being coaxed down the collectivize population's throat.
It's so easy and simple to say 'what, do you want pedophiles to use this tech now?' and end any semblance of coherent logical discourse on the matter: and that's the aim, to end any discussion or counter arguments before its enacted and further erode privacy and civil liberties.
When I really started to delve into the 'why and hows' of cryptocurency I came to the conclusion that after Wikileaks/Assange got cut off from the legacy system in 2010 that we were already in the 2nd Crypto War (Julian is a key target and is shows [2] as he's been treated like a POW) that followed after Zimmerman's PgP project succeeded and ended the 1st.
I'm a Signal user and I'm not entirely sure what that 'dumping the US Market' would entail, will they pull Signal from an app store? Meaning I could just compile it while accessing it from a VPN, or compiling it myself on PC?
> I'm a Signal user and I'm not entirely sure what that 'dumping the US Market' would entail
Yeah, it's decidedly weird turn of phrase since it is (a) open source and (b) they don't try to monetise it.
> will they pull Signal from an app store?
I don't really see what the app store has to do with Signal - it's just a way of distributing it. It's not like you need the app store to avoid compiling it - there are other avenues.
The risk for them is they or their servers come under some pressure from the US Law Enforcement Agencies. Given their programmers and servers are based in the US, that seems like it could be a real risk. Withdrawing from that would involve moving themselves and presumably families out of the US. It sounds like an almost impossible ask.
No, its totally consistent with the State's MO; using the 'Helen Lovejoy' argument [1] is entirely specious reasoning when even the most superficial analysis on the perpetrators of said crime is done... but its not meant to appeal to reason, rather its meant to create a knee-jerk reaction when someone tries to refute it before being coaxed down the collectivize population's throat.
It's so easy and simple to say 'what, do you want pedophiles to use this tech now?' and end any semblance of coherent logical discourse on the matter: and that's the aim, to end any discussion or counter arguments before its enacted and further erode privacy and civil liberties.
When I really started to delve into the 'why and hows' of cryptocurency I came to the conclusion that after Wikileaks/Assange got cut off from the legacy system in 2010 that we were already in the 2nd Crypto War (Julian is a key target and is shows [2] as he's been treated like a POW) that followed after Zimmerman's PgP project succeeded and ended the 1st.
I'm a Signal user and I'm not entirely sure what that 'dumping the US Market' would entail, will they pull Signal from an app store? Meaning I could just compile it while accessing it from a VPN, or compiling it myself on PC?
1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RybNI0KB1bg
2: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/apr/9/australian-p...