President Maduro of Venezuela denounces

WhatsApp as a spying system

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused

WhatsApp of operating as a spying tool and urged citizens to switch to alternative messaging apps such as Telegram and WeChat.

Speaking at a meeting in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, the president asserted, “WhatsApp provided its list of Venezuelan users to Colombian drug traffickers, who then conducted months of espionage.”

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    What’s wrong with telegram? And no you can use wechat from anywhere, at least the chatting part.

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      imma guess and say the devs are russian dissidents and encrypted chat is not enabled by default. wechat is good but china may b spying on you but i don’t care

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          Honestly China gains nothing from spying on randos halfway across the world, don’t get why westoids are so fond of fearmongering about China spying on them with software and then ???

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            They’ll get the secret recipe to my rice crispies squares and will one up me at Veronica’s next potluck and I can’t have that happen to me it’s the only thing I got left

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            I’ve tried explaining this to other people. One guy started talking to me about the Chinese secret police stations…

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              one idiot from my school I talked to said if you said something bad about China they’d arrest you the moment you went there.

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                As if China has a government agency in which the workers are just scanning billions upon billions of messages just to pick check if one of the millions of annual tourists says something bad about China

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            China is currently the only superpower that lack descend from white Europeans and who managed to create its own independent economy that are immune to sanctions and monopoly from Western European diaspora. There is also the fear of hard working innovative scary red masterminds who the invisible hand is recruiting into key management positions of Pax Americana that made Pax Americana strengthen their oppressive command economy against free market. The Capitalists had been using heavy government intervention to kill peaceful protestors who demand meritocracy and accountability, but the favorism by the invisible hand to the scary red boogymen made the Capitalists enforce brutal government intervention more openly.

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          If you’re reading this, please hire me, Chinese government!

          For all the CIA agents out there, this is a joke!