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I like Threema, but it is a paid app. It’s the Swiss bank version of encrypted messaging, for better or worse.

App is open source, back end is closed source but audited by security researchers every few years. So like Signal, but Swiss.

The difference is America isn’t renowned for its weapons grade hacking software.

A more appropriate example from you would’ve been Signal, which was initially funded by the CIA. However Signal is far more trustworthy than Matrix.

Matrix is nice and all, up until you learn it was born out of Israel.

Secure messaging platforms require trust.

I couldn’t get past the first sentence before I drowned in hyperbole.

Never forget that the main age verification method baked into these laws was card transactions. The ID and face scanning technology didn’t really exist when the laws were written, so it describes them more generally, but card transactions were the established method of verifying age. The new technology came in as a cheaper option for service providers.

MasterCard and VISA were the primary promoters of these laws. Even with new technology taking some of the share, the laws would still cause an increase in card verifications at a time when many businesses try to minimise the card verifications they do to limit their transaction fees (ie pay MC and VISA less).