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Did you know @SimpleX Chat now has a blockchain/shitcoin built in (called Flux)?
SimpleX network: preset servers operated by Flux, business chats and more with v6.2 of the apps
 ) Did you know they've also started doing "content moderation"—blocking users, groups and 3rd party servers? 📃.md Yeah, so far it's only to stop CSAM distribution but we all know how that's a slippery slope. The good old "Think of the children" tactic. If there's a method to ban, block or censor, it will be used and ABUSED. SimpleX Chat may have good #privacy but it's not decentralized, neither censorship-resistant. They also seem too concerned with complying with Google/Apple stores—“(...)there are requirements we have to comply with that exist outside of law, e.g. requirements of application stores.” I also found out they are getting funded by VCS such a Village Global (
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 ), which have backers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Anne Wojcicki and others.
SimpleX network: the investment from Jack Dorsey and Asymmetric, v6.0 released with the new user experience and private message routing.
 This is not freedom tech. I'm out. DYOR.

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To address some incorrect criticism: > Did you know @SimpleX Chat now has a blockchain/shitcoin built in (called Flux)? Nope, that's not true. There is no built-in coin. Flux the company offers their servers to the app users. Not their coin. > Did you know they've also started doing "content moderation"—blocking users, groups and 3rd party servers? Also not true. We cannot block users, as there are no users, and we do not block 3rd party servers. We do remove addresses of groups that distribute CSAM from our servers, without any impact on users privacy. > Yeah, so far it's only to stop CSAM distribution but we all know how that's a slippery slope. The good old "Think of the children" tactic. If there's a method to ban, block or censor, it will be used and ABUSED. Not true. Freedom of speech without SOME restriction cannot exist - unlimited freedom always leads to abuses of power and tyranny. Study some history. Our freedom ends where the freedom of our neighbours starts, so some limits absolutely must exist to defend our freedom. > SimpleX Chat ... not decentralized Not true as well - there are 100s if not 1000s of community run servers. If you don't want to use ours or Flux's, use your own or anybody else's - it's all in a single network. > not censorship-resistant. This is correct, and this will change, as was explained in livestream. Censorship-resistance and privacy are technically contradictory requirements, so they have to be balanced. > I also found out they are getting funded by VCS such a Village Global We were never hiding it, and who are it's LPs is irrelevant - they have no influence or control on SimpleX Chat. Read this post:
SimpleX network: the investment from Jack Dorsey and Asymmetric, v6.0 released with the new user experience and private message routing.