points by esseph 1 day ago | 0 comments
> OTR supports IRC, but in practice either solution beats the privacy of Discord, which requires all traffic to be sent in plain text to their corporate owned databases.
As someone who was an irc operator, I can assure you, everything from IRC was funneled into ever place it was ordered to be...
[–] lrvick 1 day ago
[–] esseph 20 hours ago
Ah, I see you never worked for US network providers, then.
[–] lrvick 17 hours ago
Nope, but I know people who have well and I know the level of quiet cowardly compliance that industry participates in. I want to enable an independent and private internet and US network providers are not in a position to help with that.
That is the beauty of open systems. One can choose an operator that reflects their values.