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🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Signal is FOSs? If so they have no legs
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Aurora | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Signal is licensed under the AGPLv3 and as such, Free and Open Source.
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🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Its code, same like law
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Aurora | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 you can't exactly make maths illegal anyways 🤷
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🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Revolution time
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Raymon | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm in for a fight against this - as programmer and hacker 😎
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Electric Sheep | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 "Signal is licensed under the AGPLv3 and as such, Free and Open Source."

Correct. Unfortunately it's also rigidly centralised. So state-level actors only need to block one set of servers and it's unusable (eg Signal is very hard to use in China due to the Great Firewall). Matrix is a better bet, both E2EE and Free and Open Source software, *and* a decentralised protocol anyone can implement.