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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-13T07:45:14.000Z",
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  "textContent": "hashcatHitman:\n\n> All I mean to say is that everyone should be willing to hold their own beliefs, thoughts, and opinions. They do not necessarily need to share them, but they should never feel like they are not allowed to think the way they do because someone else said they are not, be it “the state” or otherwise. To the extent of how Signal helps with that, if your family is religious, for example, I am not saying you are a thought criminal only if you are using Signal to plan or discuss opposition against religious oppression. I would consider you a thought criminal for even being brave enough to discuss your beliefs amongst yourselves in any capacity, as “the state” does not approve of such thought. I would consider you a thought criminal for even having those beliefs, though to have such beliefs and never discuss them would obviously not require Signal.\n\nI agree, but it does not help me promote the use of Signal.\n\nHere is the reality of the people I have to convince to care for privacy and use services like Signal:\n\n  * The state, the police and the authority are there to protect me. They could never be a source of risk to me.\n  * Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp is what keeps me connected to my social circle. Every problem people have with those services are other peoples problems or just an unavoidable reality.\n  * I’m uninteresting for people in power. I don’t know them, so they don’t know me and since I’m not significant they could not care about me.\n  * The app of the grocery chain is made to give me benefits and to enable me to save money.\n  * I don’t want protestors to be protected. I want them to shut up, so we can have peace.\n\n\n\nYes, to be confronted with such a naive view of the world is frustrating. Still these are people I have to share a communication platform with and they build the core of the society I live in.\n\nThose are the people I have to convince to make a change. So here are the arguments that help:\n\n  * Information about people propagated by data brokers and ad companies will be used by criminals to run automated attack campaigns targeting those people. You will be attacked because you are an easy mark, not because of any interest in you. Reduce the amount of data collected to lower your exposure to criminals.\n  * You don’t have to suffer through all these adds. You can have a faster and cleaner internet experience.\n  * I’m on Signal, Matrix and XMPP. If you want to communicate with me, you have to use one of those services call on phone.\n\n\n\nThe reason I’m discussing the issue here is the following. If I peak a persons interest for privacy protection and they try to find information on their own, they will encounter the “enemy of the state“ attitude pretty fast. That will be off putting to them, because that is not what they want to be and those are not the people they want to associate with.",
  "title": "Pavel Durov on Signal"
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