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It isn't a viewpoint. It's a fact. I'm using signal for almost a decade now and only managed to get a dozen or so people to use it in any capacity. Most keep using whatsapp as their primary method of communication anyway.

Meanwhile, I have been using Signal since the TextSecure days, too, and practically all my contacts are using it these days.

Good for you, tell us how you did it!

What books would you recommend, that proof that connection?

"Privacy is a precondition to democracy"

How would you convert an autocracy into a democracy without secrecy? There are no peaceful means so you have to plot.

Secrecy and privacy is not really the same concept.

>Read a couple books

Maybe you should? It might help improve your reading comprehension. The person you're responding to said that most normal people don't care enough to switch to a vastly less popular app, which is obviously true.