End to end encrypted, but yet I sent a nude, a very attractive one too, and it's very clearly of an adult (it's me, I'm old), an hour later with no other interactions going on and only really chatting to 1 person on there and with few contacts, my account was banned.
The experience is odd, web telegram only shows last line said, and you find yourself signed out of the app. Try to sign in and it says the telephone number is banned.
End to end encrypted should cover everything. If you can be banned for something pleasure related, legal, consenting... Then there are no protections, and no safety for being queer and fun.
Reminder that Signal exists, is properly secure, and that it soon (now in beta) supports username sharing rather than phone number sharing.
Privacy is the bedrock of democracy, but it's also the very basis by which LGBTQIA+ people can be safe... And secure communication is required for privacy.
Not to mention that the very linkage of a #PhoneNumber to a #Mesenger is inherently bad and wrong since those are not only easy to track but usually not available #anonymously in every juristiction.
#Signal itself is extra #insecure as they #restrict the availability of their services and App based off the presumed geolocation as per country code.
AND NO, YOU STILL NEED A PHONE NUMBER TO USE SIGNAL!!!
I didn’t go looking for a pile of poorly structured garbage but somehow I stumbled across this NY Times article by Reid Blackman about how Signal is dangerously obsessed with privacy and we should probably just trust the government to read our messages just in case we’re doing bad things. /1