For America being the land of the free, your legal system seems to immediately bend over, face down, and assume the position as soon as a mega corporation demands something. But a local owner of a single business doesn’t matter if their company is wiped out.

If we can all agree on the right to free speech, includijg the right to speech that you hate and condemn, these kinds of trash and misleading headlines need to wiped off the internet.

I think you’re mainly speaking from a place of percieved opinion than tech knowledge but I would suggest for you that you only use a landline for phone service. Have you ever had a job working with various network services for random customers and speak to customers to answer questions?

Why does a phone need to be in a ferriday bag when phone does not have a SIM card because it uses web-based VoIP service? The phone only needs an internet connection, like wi-fi, and can’t talk to cell towers. Remove SIM from phone, connect phone to wi-fi to get online to access phone service through the internet, GPS can’t function. If a phone without SIM calls 911, it will go through, but dispatch sees no number, no location, no name.

How can cell towers track your location if phone does not have a SIM due to using web-based VoIP service?

If you get a cell number with a SIM, then port that number to a VoIP, how does KYC matter since you are going.to have to give that number to people with your name, so businesses or offices can call you through VoIP service?

It is possible to get a real cell number from a big name carrier and then port the number to VoIP company to use VoIP service with an original cell number.

Switch phone service to VoIP, cancel cell service, all tracking capabilities is gone.

Does that also work for people who never had data service and is a wi-fi only phone for calling, no cell/mobile service?

When you mix being an ideologue with software will forever lose.

Any email service that works with K-9/Thunderbird and OpenKeychain.

It connects to proprietary services which makes it not an option. The same situation for Tuta Mail. We can talk after they publish their server source code. Proton is also not an option for the same reasons.

I joined Privacy and Security

Does the BSD’s heavy emphasis on code correctness, that’s when the quality and security of the code will be revealed. I will watch what the OpenBSD developers say when they try to port the new code for FFMpeg.

When this comes to the BSD’s, it will be interesting to see if there is a significant difference in multimedia. I bought Intel 11th gen over 10th for it’s AVX-512.

Your argument is purely ideological and reflection of your lack of experience travelling various countries that do not speak English. For example, go to a country where 100% of all business, companies, and offices, use Whatsapp because it’s the most stable form of phone service they have so they don’t have to pay for each phone call and pay for each text message.

It’s too bad that the F-Droid releases are far behind. I do not install from Github to prevent against proprietary dependancies.