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>It defended its services, stating they “strongly believe that privacy is a fundamental human right.” > But critics say more than 90% of its customers are crim
by fitblipper 6y ago
>It defended its services, stating they “strongly believe that privacy is a fundamental human right.”
> But critics say more than 90% of its customers are criminals.
How do the critics know? This appears to be an attack on privacy. The implied idea is that personal communication for all should be published at least to law enforcement so law enforcement can do a better job of finding the baddies.
- PoignardAzur 6y agoGiven that the app has features like "delete messages after 30 seconds" and "enter a panic password to delete all your data", a 90% drug-dealer/political-activist ratio doesn't seem far-fetched to me. If you build an anti-witch-hunt app, most of your clients will be witches.
- zionic 6y agoHow do you know even 1% of their users use that function? If Facebook adds that feature tomorrow do billions suddenly become criminals? You assume just because the feature exists the clientele are using it.
- salawat 6y agoOne is not caused by the other, and reality never ceases to surprise. Though with the monetization model, I will admit, they surgically targeted their demographic. Besides which, stop marginalizing the 5 civil libertarians you insensitive clod. (The Aphorism goes: Make a country where witch hunts are illegal, then the population will be 5 civil minded libertarians and a million witches). Of course nobody wants to discuss that the 5 civil minded libertarians might have a point, and the unsaid snicker that reverbrates in the ensuing silence is that if you make something easier, you select for it, therefore one should not make undesirable things easier. Therefore the implication is left that the one being persuaded is too dim to realize the consequences of their decision. This goes completely out the window when one takes into account that there may be a legitimate, though unpleasant need to tolerate the existence of something unpleasant due to the greater damage that could result from doing something drastic. Fun and hilarity only continue to escalate from here. The wise would be well advised to simply move on.
- PoignardAzur 6y agoI wasn't saying the app should be illegal, mind you. Just pointing out that, empirically speaking, it's probably used by a lot of criminals.
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