The way these politicians speak is inane and infuriating.

15 seconds in, Meredith - "I'm here today not as a politician". Debate over and won.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: I don't trust Signal, ever, since inception.

Did you notice how the enforce-terms-of-service "question" by the politician was trying to set the scope of the conversation? It reminded me of Julian Assange's "we have to enlarge the media frame"

Shouts out to Meredith! I would have lost my damn mind with this dude!

Wow. This is the only argument in the past 8 or more years where I’ve followed both sides and not thought one side was complete bullshit. Yes the dumpy man was a shill, but the argument on both sides was solid, and I didn’t know who Meredeth was before this post, but she’s my hero now. Great...

4 Horsemen of the Infocalypse

#Signal is just another centralized bullshit.

Well, this confirms my view even more. The move of the central planners is clear: client side scanning that makes encryption moot. Our move can only be total decentralisation: not services but open appliances (open source hardware & software) using open protocols (Bitcoin, Nostr, Bitcoin DNS & cert ...

Not your servers, not your rules

Doesn't matter if people don't outright reject client side scanning