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I don't disagree with what you're saying. I'm not sure your statement is in disagreement with mine either? I don't think he's saying less OSS is better or anything dogmatic? All he's saying is that using Tor/Signal shouldn't be the end all be all of your surveillance concerns.

> would be more fully saturated with corporate control of the internet

You might disagree. His point was that the "corporate controllers of the internet" support projects like Tor because A) it gives a (somewhat ineffective) channel for people to focus on rather than political recourses and B) there's no real threat to the corporate model. What would you do in this e2e encrypted internet without corporate services?

> such as reproducible builds

Seems like a tangential point. You can have an untampered copy of a client with a vulnerability.

> funding from the government while fulfilling missions with extraordinary humanitarian benefits

I don't think this is in disagreement with anything either