I mean it's still not an edge case. It's just not.

Like, insert that "That's not how this works, that isn't how any of this works" meme here.

Twitter (aka X) probably has a different set of investors who may be happier using it to advance the cause of right wing extremism than the Starlink investors. That said: i thought Starlink was a publicly traded company but it appears it still isn't so it's just private investors there, too.

Oh i'm sure he argued with them. Starlink didn't back down right away, after all...

Nazis are Nazis. Just pretending they're equivalent with the CCP doesn't make sense nor make it true.

It's not a slur, is the thing. Not any more than "transgender" is and, in fact, less so.

They know this but they are pretending otherwise, as if Elongated Muskrat were a power mad 1990s forum moderator.

I've already addressed this but i guess i'll expand on it.

Signal would not be able to add backdoors to all its users. Security researchers would see pretty quickly (more below) and that would be pretty big news because Signal is quite popular with people who care about their privacy.

They could in theory backdoor an individual's Signal app but, again, that's pretty inefficient. If anyone ever noticed it would be a big black mark against Signal, though they may not have much choice in the matter if it really came to it. However, we know that big governments and other sophisticated attackers usually prefer to just stick spyware on your phone. It's easier, more comprehensive, and doesn't require collaboration with Signal.

In contrast, you don't need to do any of that with Telegram because it's not E2EE. Your argument is basically "security features can be defeated by a sufficiently advanced attacker so use this other service that doesn't have them to begin with." This makes no fucking sense.

I don't know what you're talking about with FOSS stuff. Yeah, Telegram is open source. Signal is too. Some Signal forks (particularly the ones with "Signal" in their names) have been killed but others still exist, ex molly.im.

Signal client does have reproducible builds and has since 2016, as far as i know. This is another point against Signal being backdoored.

Beyond that, Signal has gone through a number of formal security audits. As far as i know, Telegram has not.

Finally, Telegram itself. Telegram could simply enable E2EE for all chats. They choose not to and that is concerning if you care about your privacy or security.

Yeah Signal could be better but that isn't a case to use Telegram over Signal when Telegram is worse in almost every respect.

I have no dreams that i can achieve in this life and my heart grew cold long ago, but life is still getting better for me anyway. I'm still somewhat optimistic about the world. We don't have to give up just because things suck. On the contrary: that's when we can do the most in the world.

Fake speeding tickets as a service...

The fact that they won't allow users to uninstall it should suggest some things about their motives.

"High T alpha males" oh good, they invented a new gender again and it sucks.

Lae'zel is gonna run a super grindy traditional dungeon crawl with a lot of combat and math in it.

I feel like the best dm in the group is gonna be Halsin.

One of the key features of authoritarian follower personalities is that they're desperate to be normal. Like, they're terrified of the idea that they're not just like everyone else despite the fact that they are big weirdos. People who are afraid of being weird, or who get weirdly judgemental about weirdness, is a big red flag for me, personally.