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Google deletes the Element app from the Play Store, as it allows end-to-end encrypted chats, which thus cannot be censored. (element.io)
posted 5 years ago by wuhan_2020_tour 5 years ago by wuhan_2020_tour +54 / -0
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– deleted 27 points 5 years ago +27 / -0
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– TentElephant 27 points 5 years ago +27 / -0

How long before installing unapproved apps is disabled?

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– current_horror 31 points 5 years ago +31 / -0

This is a microcosm for the utter futility of "building your own stuff". These people will never leave you alone. If you think you can escape them without destroying them, you are gravely mistaken.

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– spambot 9 points 5 years ago +9 / -0

exactly, forget which distro for certain coulda swore it was Ubuntu that started working with/incorporating microsoft stuff and ms having their own linux operating system called azure. i have a bad case of brain fog so take this with salt

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– rantanon9145 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

Amazon and the Chinese Smartphone Companies would be really pissed

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– TentElephant 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Amazon could be beaten with a woke stick to accept it; they won't defend anything that purports to hurt nazis. Google is functionally a Chinese company, so they can work it out.

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– enevold 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

we are already at a stage where it is better to buy a chinese phone with the open source android, devoid of all the google shit.

if i have to chose a lesser evil, well at least the chinese cant even udnerstand me.

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– Cato 22 points 5 years ago +22 / -0

Any format that can accept clear text can accept encrypted text.

All it will take for you to do this is encrypting and decrypting with an external program.

There are many good programs that support this method.

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– norwegianwikin 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

At this rate we'll be like the WW2 resistance with pen and paper doing crypto just to send a text

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– APDSmith 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

Notice the resolution as well: you will take part in the Silicon Valley Trust and Safety Collective - you will either choose to take part of Google will make you take part.

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– lapalapa 13 points 5 years ago +13 / -0

So the fact they're not doing this with Signal and Telegram and Whatsapp (supposedly encrypted) means all those aren't secret, right?

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– Grumman 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

They don't block Signal because they use Signal.

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– acp_k2win 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

We have a room #KotakuinAction2:privacytools.io

Join up, backup comm channels are always a good thing

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– nordic 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

I'll join cause why not.

Element is my fav chat client since IRC, but it's pretty unused outside of the FOSS community.

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