People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages —not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have reached is the U.S. Senate.A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Lindsey...
This makes me upset. It’s also why P2P software is so important; the government can technically stop hosters and seize servers, but if people run P2P software, that service can never actually die.
Governments seem to be coming for tech, as we’re seeing with Canada seizing and regulating crypto accounts of their citizens now. We really need to rapidly move towards P2P solutions, even for more centralized alt-tech platforms.