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by ants_everywhere 768 days ago
Yeah, the pro-encryption and pro-privacy people sure seem to be trying to tell us something about Telegram
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Perhaps you're right, and all of them have the "greater good" intentions, but it's ridiculous how their "regular reminders" popped up in the same 24h interval
> have the "greater good" intentions,

It's getting harder and harder to tell because bot activity has gotten so good, but Matthew Green has been around a while and is a genuine old school crypto dude. There is a group of people who just believes that crypto and privacy are good things and want to promote them.

The reason it gets harder is because you can spin up a handful of "expert" accounts shilling for this or that privacy VPN or bitcoin scam etc. So it's hard to just pull up a list of statements and know whether it has any weight. In this case, Matthew Green has a lot of weight because I've followed him for a while and I know what he's about.

> There is a group of people who just believes that crypto and privacy are good things and want to promote them.

Doesn't mean one can't become a sellout eventually.

Especially in Green's particular case - he had invested a lot of attention to Margaret Salter, e.g. https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/13578907313697095...