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Where are you seeing gov blocking SMS?
How about this - in order to get a sim card to receive that SMS in most EU countries, you need first to provide your ID to the goverment. Also applies for many other countries with less rights. Some of which might become suspicious if it's a second separate SIM to your normal use one. So yeah, so much for anonymity.
2 and 3 are the whole point of the original post.
How do you figure?
Must not be important to them then.
And that's one way to make things marginalized.
Doesn't need to be a government issued ID iirc, also doesn't have to be issued by the country you are trying to purchase it in.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11561
There's any number of reasons for SMS not to be sent. I've had this problem on various platforms as well.
The point is that people can't sign up for Signal due to blocked SMS. Arguing privacy versus anonymity is pointless when there is a denial of service.
These are 2 unrelated conversations. If you want to have either one of them, we can do that, but you can't use one to argue the other. You can't argue that you can't sign up for Signal because the service isn't private. That's simply inaccurate.
This is never written anywhere in that comment. Is it too hard to read? Which part is confusing?
You haven't provided any evidence that it's "blocked" or that there is any "denial of service". As far as I can tell, the user has network issues.
Why are all the 'network issues' always effecting phone numbers starting with the same country code?
Are they?
Get a number like theirs and try it yourself.
Okay so you don't have any evidence.
Even if they are, like I mentioned elsewhere, just get a VoIP number.
You were given the evidence. It's clear you don't want evidence. A VoIP number does not solve this as the original post already explains.
You haven't provided any evidence. Only an anecdote.