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  "path": "/t/normie-messaging-app-versus-email/37231#post_6",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-18T23:37:21.000Z",
  "site": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net",
  "tags": [
    "Taiwan: Country Profile | Freedom House",
    "United States: Country Profile | Freedom House"
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  "textContent": "beantaco:\n\n> Asian mainstream media intimidate people away from using secure messaging apps like Signal, associating them with criminal activities.\n\nTaiwan isn’t a police state. Taiwan: Country Profile | Freedom House scores show 93/100 in in freedom index and 79/100 in internet freedom. For comparison USA is 81 and 73 respectively. United States: Country Profile | Freedom House If Signal is fine in USA, I find it hard to believe they couldn’t use it in Taiwan.\n\nOne great argument for Signal is that it’s so secure the Chinese government is having trouble getting around Signal’s E2EE, so they are blocking Signal. So Signal is providing protection against Chinese intelligence and organized crime, collecting data that could be used for industrial espionage, or, to extort Taiwanese people into going against their country’s interests.\n\nThe friend must see reason in law-abiding citizens having the right if not even obligation to protect themselves and their countrymen against these threats.\n\nBut ultimately, if the friend is not comfortable using Signal, then the fate of the relationship is dictated what you two feel comfortable talking about over a monitored line. Let them know speaking freely gives more room for the relationship to deepen and that unfortunately it can’t happen otherwise.",
  "title": "Normie messaging app versus email"
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