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President Maduro of Venezuela denounces

WhatsApp as a spying system

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused

WhatsApp of operating as a spying tool and urged citizens to switch to alternative messaging apps such as Telegram and WeChat.

Speaking at a meeting in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, the president asserted, "WhatsApp provided its list of Venezuelan users to Colombian drug traffickers, who then conducted months of espionage."

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[-] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 2 months ago

Not today, fuckerberg.

[-] lambalicious 8 points 2 months ago

He had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

But recommending Telegram? Lol. Lmao even. And Wechat? Arent't you supposed to be within the China Firewall to use that?

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 2 months ago

What's wrong with telegram? And no you can use wechat from anywhere, at least the chatting part.

[-] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

imma guess and say the devs are russian dissidents and encrypted chat is not enabled by default. wechat is good but china may b spying on you but i don't care

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago

what if i want china to spy on me

[-] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Honestly China gains nothing from spying on randos halfway across the world, don't get why westoids are so fond of fearmongering about China spying on them with software and then ???

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 months ago

They'll get the secret recipe to my rice crispies squares and will one up me at Veronica's next potluck and I can't have that happen to me it's the only thing I got left

[-] NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 months ago

I've tried explaining this to other people. One guy started talking to me about the Chinese secret police stations....

[-] Jonathan12345@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

one idiot from my school I talked to said if you said something bad about China they'd arrest you the moment you went there.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

As if China has a government agency in which the workers are just scanning billions upon billions of messages just to pick check if one of the millions of annual tourists says something bad about China

[-] sinovictorchan@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

China is currently the only superpower that lack descend from white Europeans and who managed to create its own independent economy that are immune to sanctions and monopoly from Western European diaspora. There is also the fear of hard working innovative scary red masterminds who the invisible hand is recruiting into key management positions of Pax Americana that made Pax Americana strengthen their oppressive command economy against free market. The Capitalists had been using heavy government intervention to kill peaceful protestors who demand meritocracy and accountability, but the favorism by the invisible hand to the scary red boogymen made the Capitalists enforce brutal government intervention more openly.

[-] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago

If you're reading this, please hire me, Chinese government!

For all the CIA agents out there, this is a joke!

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I think you get the bot/shill card on the Hexbear bingo if you put that in your bio

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 months ago

At the very least they won't provide intel to Colombian drug traffickers.

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 months ago

"WhatsApp as a spying system" sorry nicolás, but you should update your internet explorer

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