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In that case don't use Tiktok dm's to discuss your sexuality. I think it is strange that people feel like they have to be able to talk on sensitive topics over
by trashb 7mo ago
In that case don't use Tiktok dm's to discuss your sexuality. I think it is strange that people feel like they have to be able to talk on sensitive topics over every interface they can get their hands on.
Similarly in "traditional" media you may not want to discuss such private conversation on a radio broadcast. Perhaps you would rather discuss it on the phone or over snail mail as there is more of an expectation of privacy on those medium.
- danlitt 7mo ago> there is more of an expectation of privacy on those medium What does the "p" in "pm" stand for?
- trashb 7mo agoexcuse me, I confused "Private messages" (pm) for "Direct messages" (dm). I will update above
- danlitt 7mo agoI don't think you confused anything, except for the terminology the platform uses. There is an obvious expectation of privacy when sending direct messages!
- sleepybrett 7mo agoHasn't been true ANYTIME IN HISTORY. Hell it was well understood even by children that no conversation you had on the telephone was truly private. That's why cyphers were invented.
- danlitt 7mo agoWhat are you talking about? It is illegal to tap people's phone lines or to interfere with mail. Are you saying people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy even when it's illegal to be spied on?
- sleepybrett 7mo ago'Illegal' doesn't really mean anything in this, or any other, day and age when you are talking about the very rich, the very powerful, or the state. The good thing about e2ee is that it probably makes the list of those with the ability to decrypt things encrypted e2e somewhat smaller. Fact is hacking can get to those keys. (i.e. state actor zero-click exploits your phone they are going to be able to get your private key and the messages in memory)
- danlitt 7mo ago> 'Illegal' doesn't really mean anything in this This is a thread arguing about what the law should be. > Fact is hacking can get to those keys. Everything made by humans is fallible.
- gzread 7mo agoit stands for "not a public timeline post"
- danlitt 7mo agoIt should be obvious from how contrived your wording is that nobody thinks of them this way.
- philipallstar 7mo agoI'm commenting in the context of the conversation, not in a vacuum. You could just as (in fact, much more) easily say that children shouldn't be on apps with private messaging enabled. That would help a lot more, and then we could keep e2ee.
- roughly 7mo agoRight, but it currently isn't a sensitive topic - homosexuality is, as of 2026, broadly legal in the United States. That's a relatively new state of affairs, historically speaking, and one which Afghanistan shared as recently as 2021.