Ah, yeah. This is more of that western freedom I’ve been hearing aboot.
They are never going to give up. Ever. Not until the techbros who bribe them to sell more surveillance tech die out, but it’s going to be too late then. Nothing makes these assholes more excited than creating a techno-feudal dystopia.
Surprise?
Maybe more people will start realize that, even more so in our so perfectly democratic societies, digital/online privacy and intimacy have very little future (and that’s the very optimistic version).
trust me bro it’s for your safety💀
Damn it
These goddamned fucks
Time to use matrix, I guess
Decentralize baby!
I’ve been using Matrix with muh fam for a few years, and it’s been great.
My significant other puts up with my shenanigans and tests out different apps with me, and SimpleX has been pretty decent for a server-less option. I believe you can host your own node if you feel inclined to.
XMPP would be fantastic if the clients were a little better. They’re by no means bad, just not as polished as Element.
Technology cannot solve purely political problems.
But, it can prevent political problems hurting my privacy…
And there is nothing they can do against it.If they force matrix to insert a backdoor, I just use a fork without it.
If they force my Linux distributor to add a backdoor, I just use a fork without it.
If they force a backdoor in iOS and Android, I use a fork of open source android or mainline linux for phones, without it.
If they want to hang me because I do such things, I riot.
These technical workarounds may work for a little while, and are useful to some extent.
But they’re not long term solutions for a government that regularly increase its surveillance powers at the expanse of privacy.
China and Russia reached a level of surveillance and repression where people may get arrested for merely using Matrix/VPN/Tor, regarless of what it’s used for.
Political action is a better way to address bad politics before it reaches this point. This could include voting, activism, supporting privacy-friendly NGOs…
Waiting until the last moment and then rioting isn’t the best option.
Fair argument, which I agree on 😇
Carrier pigeons didn’t have government backdoors. Maybe we ought to go back to them
Would Signal be affected by this?
If yes, what’s the move: Matrix or self host my own chat for my family?
