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You support privacy yet want to see and to end encryption removed (if the article is correct) and propose moving to a platform that in this sense is less secure from eavesdropping? OK.

Besides banning WhatsApp won't help with fake news - which ever dominant platform comes to replace it will suffer the same fate. It just so happens that everyone is on WhatsApp atm, so that's where everything happens. Including fake news.

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I don't want end to end encryption to be banned and tbh, I don't trust Whatsapp's end to end encryption.

There are better alternatives to whatsapp which are open source, you know.

and no, the government is not going to block end to end encryption.

Ok, maybe not remove it completely, but start tampering with it. And i quote the article:

   Because messages are end-to-end encrypted, to comply with the law WhatsApp says it would have break encryption for receivers, as well as “originators”, of messages.

Also Telegram is not encrypted by default, so it's not a better alternative in that sense.

You may dislike facebooks business practices, but they are in the right on this one.

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