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Wrong lesson. All the ways to track you combined don't leave you an outlet.
Signal is fine to make you feel better.
It's a social problem that should be solved by social, not technical, means. Awareness, law, burning tires.
EDIT: for moral clarity's sake - I live in Russia, I'm not spreading awareness mostly, I'm not trying to change any law and sure as hell I'm not burning tires ; but if you live in a democratic country with courts and presumption of innocence until proven guilty yadda-yadda, you might try those
I live in the United States. Crime is not about behavior or adherence to law, but who we are. Those of us who cannot afford lawyers will be framed by law enforcement or coerced into confession, or extorted into a plea deal.
And laws are not passed that better serve the public, but are based on ideology or corporate interest.
So we're not a liberal, democratic society with rule of law.
In your society you can openly protest against people calling the shots, or be rude to cops, and not expect legal (and physical) retribution. There are places where this is unthinkable.
Yes, that's because the public has ideologies and corporate interests, and no common idea of what it means "to serve the public".
So not Murica.
Compared to Russia it is, but there's a lower threshold to start having rights, expressed in money you have to spend on lawyers.
In case of Russia no amount of money is enough to make it democratic and lawful even in some separate, specific, one can even say - personal, situation.
It's the fallacy of "if it's bad here, that means that other bad place is similarly bad", no, that other bad place is an order of magnitude worse, but you are refusing to accept that due to lack of experience. And there's "worse" someplace else. In many other places, actually.
Delta Chat is better than Signal imo.