> Like Larry Page and Serguei Brin before him, Moxie Marlinspike built the oppression tool he was initially trying to fight
This hyperbole exposes that the author is out of touch with the real world stakes of mass surveillance which Signal is intended to address.
You are not being oppressed because you can't run Signal on a quirky e-ink phone. Signal isn't broken on your phone because the Signal Foundation wants to exploit you, it's broken because building software is hard and sometimes requires pragmatic compromises.
Yes, decentralization is an important principle, both technically and politically. It's worth advocating for. But it's not the answer to every question ever.
This hyperbole exposes that the author is out of touch with the real world stakes of mass surveillance which Signal is intended to address.
You are not being oppressed because you can't run Signal on a quirky e-ink phone. Signal isn't broken on your phone because the Signal Foundation wants to exploit you, it's broken because building software is hard and sometimes requires pragmatic compromises.
Yes, decentralization is an important principle, both technically and politically. It's worth advocating for. But it's not the answer to every question ever.