https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama

Signal DOES have my phone number but they can’t tell my government anything other than yes I use Signal yes I connected to it today

This is incorrect. They also have your full name and address by extension, as well as those of everyone you communicate with.

They're also subject to national security letters, meaning the US state can get that info without a warrant.

Just read the first article I posted, it gets into all this.

The 2nd article is the signal CEO Meredith Whitaker interviewing with lawfare, which is a US defense industry think-tank.

The full picture is that Signal has the most important piece of information you can give anyone online: your phone number (which means your real name and current address). Also that they're hosted in the US and have close links to the US defense industry.

People are not as stupid as these large centralized sites like signal keep telling you they are. Ppl figured out how to make accounts on different services, forums, and platforms since the internet began. It is no more difficult to make a matrix account, or install simpleX than it is anything else. My partner and I figured out simplex within 10 minutes.

These are all "trust me bro" claims.

Give me ssh access to their server so I can verify that this "sealed sender" is working correctly and not using the info you already gave them. We would demand this transparency of open source messengers, so why not signal?

Anyone who thinks Biden wouldn't have continued the US policy of bombing the middle east, are ignorant of the fact that he already did:

What countries do you think have democracy?

Because liberal / capitalist dictatorships are not democracies, despite marketing themselves as ones.

The DPRK is a success story, they succeeded in defeating both the Japanese and US imperialists (despite the US killing 1/5 of their citizens), fought the US comprador government to a standstill (which still serves as a US military base and carries out attacks and propaganda against the DPRK), and made it through the incredibly hard period of the 90s (the arduous march) after the fall of the USSR.

Socialism can take on many forms, all of which can't be divorced from the historical context in which they arose. Other comrades can give some deep dives into the DPRK's governance system, which can show how it's far more democratic than the capitalist dictatorship in the south.

We should all admire the DPRK for standing up to the US empire, and debunk the lies told about it first and foremost. Liberals tend to think its mordor or something, when in reality its a country where ppl go to work and live regular lives like any other.

Signal stores, and has access to, no message metadata.

Phone numbers are the most important metadata you can give them, far more important than message content. It means your real identity / name and address. With phone numbers you can build social networking graphs: who talked to who, and when.

To be convinced of this, take a look at the client source code, and compile the app yourself.

Client source code is irrelevant here. Signal is a centralized service, you can't verify what their US-based server is actually running (although they did go a full year without publishing any server updates at one point, until they received a lot of backlash for it).

None of this information ever leaves your phone without being encrypted or otherwise masked.

You gave them your phone number / real identity when you signed up. The most important piece of info they could possibly give them, you already did.

Some introductory de-brainwashing links:

• Is north korea a totalitarian dictatorship? Are they all really required to get the same haircut? A short documentary.
• South Korea boosts reward for defectors to $860k USD.
• Are north korean defectors really paid to lie by the south? A short documentary.
• What is everyday life like? A conversation with a North Korean Citizen.

PRODUCT PITCH: Hey everyone, I have a great idea for a secure / private messaging service.

It's hosted in the US, subject to its pervasive spying laws including national security letters.

Also I need all your phone numbers.

Also no you can't host this yourself, I run the only server.

Everyone who uses signal and supports it, is falling for this pitch.

Why not signal?

Rule 1... do they think it's racist to be against NATO now lol. Probably including "anti-white" in their definition of bigotry.