effectively a CCP platform for widespread surveillance and IP theft

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There's lots of content sitting just below the surface on github. Any time you make a PR on a repo, even if it gets closed or "deleted" by the repo owner, the actual link to the file itself stays there forever if you save it. Github's own dmca repo even has warez links on it, sitting there for years.

As far as I can tell from reading the text of the bill, this doesn't actually require anyone to realistically verify anyone's age... it just requires "account holders" (adults) at account creation time to provide a (any) birthdate for the purposes of categorizing their access by age bracket. It doesn't say anything about the information having to be accurate, and gives no penalties for such.

It applies not just to Internet sites but any software application, including operating systems. And strangely it also designates any "person that owns, maintains, or controls an application" as a "Developer".

I would bet it's more likely emotional breakdown from cyberbullying.

Most packages of Signal contains proprietary code. I suggest Molly-FOSS instead.

If the people pirating weren't going to buy the product in the first place, are they even hurting anyone?

Not everyone wants to live in the terminal. I would argue most people don't.

Open Technology Fund

Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.

For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).

Yes I realize encryption, computers and the internet are all also govt-funded, but everyone is free to pick their battles.

She has her hand in too many strategic places, unlike Telegram.

employed at Google for 13 years

speaker at the 2018 World Summit

written for the American Civil Liberties Union

advised the White House, the FCC, the FTC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations

If it's any school like mine was, where people actively look at all the traffic going through their network, it's a losing battle. And I say this as both a huge privacy advocate and a long-time network engineer.

Anything even remotely resembling a tunnel, VPN or proxy is going to make you stand out in their monitoring, because they will see constant traffic between you and the same host on the other end... traffic that practically never stops. In my day the school even force-reset SSH and RDP sessions after a while (or maybe it was actually ALL tcp sessions, not sure).

It doesn't matter what protocol or technique you use at that point because they can either block whatever IP/ports you use, every time you change it, or threaten/shut off your service.

most basic thing

I don't think you understand what youtube has been doing...

That's nice. Some of us have work to get done though.