Panteleimon

That’s fair, though personally I’m kindof glad they did. “Signal is a secure messaging app” is a lot easier to explain to non-tech-savvy people than “Signal is a secure messaging app, as long as you are messaging someone who is using Signal too. It can also send regular texts but they can’t be encrypted.” Leaving that nuance out would have left people texting with a false assumption of security, but I lost several people explaining it because it “sounds complicated”.

Yup. Everyone here giving their own reasons for disliking her seems to be missing that the amount of vitriolic hatred spewed at her is wildly disproportionate to anything she’s actually done or failed to do.

(speaking as someone who doesn’t like her either, in that I don’t “like” 99% of politicians)

If an entity is not subject to the legal restrictions of an individual, it should not benefit from the legal rights of an individual.

What - and I cannot emphasize this next part enough - the fuck

This exactly. Only I am quite certain it’s already being used this way, on a much wider scale than we have any way to measure.

signal ftw ✊