While I very much agree with the author's critiques on the architecture of signal (centralized service, under US government jurisdiction, phone number requireme

While I very much agree with the author's critiques on the architecture of signal (centralized service, under US government jurisdiction, phone number requirement and the maintainer's merciless effort to squash interoperability with other services, something antithetical to a supposed free software project) I think it is important to point out that the author is a self avowed Marxist-Leninist and their motivation for writing this is likely largely support for the sovereignty of the Chinese Communist Party. This is not a character attack, it is pertinent information. The author does not actually value individual liberty or privacy from state apparatus, quite the opposite, and it would not be a stretch to call this article agitation.