I just looked at people in youtube comments reacting at situation where us government recommended Signal messenger. It was like an entire comment section dedicated to arguing whether Signal is backdoored, or whether our operating systems backdoored and it doesn't matter, or whether our whole life is already backdoored, or whether it's all a psyop and that youtuber is a federal agent for recommending the same thing as CIA.

Just looking at it for several minutes made me feel sick. Like, that's just... Pointless. This whole community of not even anonymous people are just arguing non stop based on whole layers of assumptions that aren't baseless but still aren't enough to prove any accusation they are making, so the only thing they do is alienate anyone who isn't into that debate.

That's the thing, alienation. A lot of people outside of privacy-aware circles have wrong assumptions that those circles are made out of criminals or conspiracy theorists, and those commenters aren't beating that accusations