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"Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries..."

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 17 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Yeah. Telegram, should be next, there's a huge risk with it too. And email! Social networks too, just in case. And postal mail, we can't forget that. We should crack down any form of uncensored communication.

All for the benefit of the people, of course. \s

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago (22 children)

I mean signal was funded in part by the US intelligence community up until last year.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 4 months ago

The current president of Signal is also still happy to do interviews with US-defense-oriented think tanks like Lawfare.

They probably still are funded by USIntel, considering how interested RFA was in pushing Signal in privacy-oriented spaces.

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[–] Novman@feddit.it 19 points 4 months ago (29 children)

In UK don't ban them, but jail you if they don't like your posts, more democratic.

[–] gytrash@feddit.uk 6 points 4 months ago

The people inciting race riots deserve everything they get.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Self defense is self defense, would we expect some different behavior from a country being attacked from outside interests with publicly accessible end to end encryption services?

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

they do seem to have blocked reddit and twitter

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