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Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

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960 points andrew918277 | 1 comments | 18 Jun 24 08:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mellosouls ◴[18 Jun 24 09:28 UTC] No.40715660[source]▶
Already being discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993

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bun_terminator ◴[18 Jun 24 09:32 UTC] No.40715682[source]▶
this has more weight: threema is the biggest "alternative" (after whatsapp and telegram) chat app among my peers. There's a sizable non-tech but pro-privacy part of the population that exclusively uses threema. This will be the first time they ever hear of this.
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Semaphor ◴[18 Jun 24 09:44 UTC] No.40715750[source]▶
Interesting. Here it had some niche users, but got completely supplanted by signal, which is the clear #2 with the people I know.
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bun_terminator ◴[18 Jun 24 09:56 UTC] No.40715818[source]▶
Signal had a narrow window when there was some whatsapp scandal going on and signal was weirdly popular for a month or so. Then they announced their crypto bs. And in my bubble it was nuked entirely off the earth as a result.

With Threema I have lots of uncles etc who use it exclusively.

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1. Semaphor ◴[18 Jun 24 10:21 UTC] No.40715987[source]▶
Everyone I know uses WA, but a significant amount (~50%) uses Signal as well, most of those are not tech people. Back when they announced the crypto stuff, I knew next to no one with it, so that doesn’t really matter. I think only 1 or 2 people still use Threema in addition to the other apps.

Telegram I only know 2 users, one who’s American, and one who’s into conspiracies …