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You're right but it's Signal's mission to provide private messaging in the face of government overreach.

Even if they have a good reason for the paywall, it's so bizarre that they don't ask for $2-$5 donation via their own cryptocurrency MobileCoin as an alternative to providing a phone number.

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Every time one sees something "bizarre" such as this, one should assume its made so on purpose and ask oneself hat purpose does it serve.

In this case, its painfully obvious.

Then assumptions such as "it's Signal's mission to provide private messaging in the face of government overreach" suddenly become very dubious.

Oh that thought has certainly crossed my mind but I didn't want to bring it up without a shred of real evidence.

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