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1. Kurt Opsahl (kurt@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 07:23:39 JST Kurt Opsahl

   • Signal

   Late contender for worst take of the year: NYT oped argues @signalapp is bad because users might not know it strongly protects comms from surveillance. I, for one, am a “witting” advocate user. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/opinion/jack-dorseys-twitter-signal-privacy.html

   • Scott Lougheed (scottlougheed@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 04:50:00 JST Scott Lougheed

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     • Signal

     Yeah, fuck the privacy-preserving non-profit @signalapp and let’s all uncritically embrace our exploitive capitalist overlords who give no shits about anything except accumulating capital at all costs.

     That’s the utopia we’re all excited about.

     I hope that if the NYT opinion editorial board and Mr. Blackman thought about this take for more than 30 seconds they’d have come to a less absurd conclusion.

   • Scott Lougheed (scottlougheed@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 04:50:02 JST Scott Lougheed

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     This #NYT piece is an incredibly naïve take. #Signal “embeds” a specific ideology but Meta, Twitter, google, etc don’t? Everything comes from somewhere and ideology is inescapable. Sometimes that ideology is raw-ass capitalism seeking accumulation of capital at all costs, privacy be damned. And guess what? That ideology, held by C-suite and shareholders and embedded in modern social media companies (not users), is also scaled up rapidly and often without consideration of the consequences!

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.