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You should be outraged at any app that allows people to doxx other people online and say unverified things about them. Slander and libel laws still exist on the internet.

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So all forms of communication then? What is the end goal here, present your driver's licence and submit your comment to a Truth Verification Panel to be approved for distribution?

Most things don't have that as their explicit primary purpose.

Exactly. It's one thing to have Whatsapp used by criminals or whatever, and a totally different thing to go out and make an e2e chat app that's like "hey criminals, use this app to facilitate your drug deals!".

That is an unnecessary hyperbole. Most apps to have terms of service and most of them include clauses around doxxing others.

No, an unnecessary hyperbole would be saying people should be outraged at any app that allows unverified communication.

Yes, that's correct.

The thing is, that's not what darth_avocado was talking about. The person that introduced that idea was... you. It's your hyperbole.

If you read the whole thread, the first comment I replied to, that user said exactly that thing.

No. You changed what they said into something stupider.

They said "allows people to doxx other people online and say unverified things about them"

You changed that to "allows unverified communication"

Not the same.

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