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I've been donating forever to Signal, and at this point, I'm resigned that it won't reach WhatsApp parity. Just hire some lobbyists to keep encrypted communications legal as a human right.


That wouldn’t help. The proposal “got around” weakening encryption without outright removing it.

They “just” wanted anything you sent to be scanned before it was sent encrypted.

Stupid and dangerous, the even have sections in the proposal that talk about encryption being important, but somehow less important than thinking about the children and putting a cop looking over the shoulder of every single citizen.




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