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m52go | 5 years ago

The legal entities can move to other jurisdictions, sure, but it doesn't matter because app distribution still occurs primarily through USA-based Google Play and USA-based Apple App Store—both of which can easily geofence apps as they please (or as they're required).

This is one of the reasons I've started to appreciate Matrix a lot more lately.

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom

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billme|5 years ago

Putting aside Signal officially declining to the add option to discover or manually add a server via the client, theirs nothing stopping anyone from going to GitHub, downloading the code for the server and client, editing the code however they see fit as long as it follows the legal guidelines.

CGamesPlay|5 years ago

> long as it follows the legal guidelines.

So like, as long as they add in the backdoor?

young_unixer|5 years ago

The real solution is switching to open source mobile operating systems.

lima|5 years ago

Android is open source. Alternative app stores exist. Play Services can be replaced.