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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Why does this community, which is privacy oriented, use Discord rather than Matrix? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by Kalcifer@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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On the side bar it lists the following:

[Matrix/Element]Dead

Discord

"Discord" is an active link, but the Matrix link is completely inactive. Not only is it inactive (which could have be excused as a broken link), but it is also manually labeled as "Dead", as if there is no intention of making it work. How can a community that is focused on privacy willingly favor a service that is privacy non-respecting when a perfectly functional privacy-respecting alternative exists?

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Pretty much all companies are data collection companies, or they have data collection services tacked onto their software. However, in this case, Tencent is a company in China, and China is a data collection country.

Tencent is not required by law to pass all user information to CCP.

If China wants to see it, then yes they are required by law to pass information to the CCP.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

China is a data collection country.

Cause the USA isn't?

If China wants to see it, then yes they are required by law to pass information to the CCP.

You should look up the PRISM program.

If you are going to label Tencent as purely a data collection company belonging to a data collection country then let me remind you that Linux had a social media site that collected a lot of information that could have been turned over to the US federal law enforcement due to prism and the US laws SCA and CLOUD acts.

So literally if that's your definition, the Linux Foundation is a data collection company too.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not athletic enough to keep up with your logical leaps.