Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 4 weeks ago
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 statement ITT.
Technologists have very little patience for people that are technologically illiterate. And whe 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.
GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Am I reading the article wrong? Is it not a good thing that they refused to comply with the hostile anti-encryption law?
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 4 weeks ago
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.
rikudou@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
You know they can’t legally operate there if they don’t follow the law, right?
Pulling out is the only form of protest they have as a company. The rest is up to its users.
Anyway, if it happened, you could still use Signal anyway, perhaps with the help of a relay like other countries who prefer spying over privacy.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 4 weeks ago
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.