After end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp, I suspect some countries will consider blocking it. But it's popular. It's like FB. Widely used.
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Can people be pushed to switch messaging apps? They can. Less network investment than creating Facebook networks. Still.. big shift.
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Messaging encryption is important to dissent. Activists often make their politics public, it's their personal lives they need to protect.
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Much activist encryption tools are actually geared towards whistleblowers, not activists. What activists need to "hide" is different.
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Privacy of your personal conversation & affairs—the basic dignity that we all need—is much more crucial to most movements & activists.
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End-to-end encryption is a normalization, not a backward step. Law enforcement worked for centuries when every conversation wasn't recorded.
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Ephemerality of personal conversation; preserving privacy from those outside the conversation... This is just the normal state of things.
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Finally, Here's my NYT op-ed on why stopping WhatsApp from encryption isn't the way to go. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/stopping-whatsapp-wont-stop-terrorists.html …pic.twitter.com/RJcduNx1iV
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