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“We’re aware of reports that access to Signal has been blocked in some countries,” Signal says. If you are affected by the blocks, the company recommends turning on its censorship circumvention feature. (NetBlocks reports that this feature lets Signal “remain usable” in Russia.)

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[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago

Legitimate countries don't need to ban communications platforms.

[-] Korkki@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago
[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 48 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He said "communications platforms" not "misinformation, social engineering, and mass data collection platform masquerading as a social media platform"

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you can just say "social media."

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I wish they would apply that standard universally.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well, one is used as a massive government data collection tool, another does the same thing for private corporations and is profitable.

Profit. That’s why many refuse to make it standard.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago
[-] Korkki@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago

not “misinformation, social engineering, and mass data collection platform masquerading as a social media platform”

Yeah and what do you think Russia for example sees almost every American "communiction platform" as? And it's not as if they don't have a reason, like every american platform that is every other major social media that isn't tiktok is censored, controlled and swarming with bots doing narrative control and spam. It really is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy to say that TiKTok is the real pressing problem. I don't even use TikTok, but I find it so fucking disgusting how every "freespeech freedomlover" comes out of the woodwork to demand it's shutting it down just to enforce American social media monopoly over the world. Even if Bytedance has bent over backwards to prove that there isn't any misconduct (of things that US based tech companies are routinely mandated to do for US gov, state department and the intelligence services), because it's only bad if somebody else does the excact same thing to us as we would have done to them.

[-] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 month ago

Does ByteDance publish TikTok’s transmission protocol to demonstrate transparency?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_Protocol

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

Signal doesn't even provide reproducible builds 🤣

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

I'd say social media platforms are an entire different beast.

Facebook is not the same as Facebook Messenger for instance.

[-] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

tiktok is a platform to share information and communicate, yes

which is why the french government banned it in Kanaky ("new caledonia") during the protests there, as it was a tool of communication used by the protesters

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Pro-independence Kanak parties use the name (la) Kanaky

TIL

probably not in anyway unless if bytedance strips the algorithm and sells it to like cloudflare, mozilla for example instead of facebook.

[-] xor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago

I kinda disagree - that's not to say that they don't usually do so for illegitimate reasons (or that these bans are legitimate), but there's plenty of valid reasons why a government would want/need to ban a platform

X, for example, has been giving the UK a whole lot of good reasons why they may wish to consider it (restoring the accounts of people like Tommy Robinson, allowing misinformation, the owner of the platform himself actively spreading that misinformation)

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Poe's Law

Do you really not see that this is literally just "we are the good guys so it is ok if we do it"?

"Misinformation" is whatever those in power decide to be such, whether it can be found on Signal or X or wherever, and whether the ones deciding it are in power in the UK, the US, India, Germany, Venezuela, or Russia.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

We should allow the US surveillance giants into all countries, and let US companies control all world social media and communications platforms. Signal too, since it's a US-hosted centralized service that must follow its NSL laws /s

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I find these absolutist arguments particularly hilarious in face of UK now actively talking about restricting social media, and arresting people for posts. When people use media to incite violence and social unrest in countries the west considers to be adversaries, free speech stands above all other considerations. However, as soon as these things start happening in the west, then the restrictions on speech are immediately put into place.

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