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@Tutanota The most salient property is probably governance model and diversity of funding. Telegram can be leveraged easier because it is privately owned and top-down. It is harder to pressure an elected board esp. if members are in different countries. The technical component has to be solid, but that doesn't mean much if one person controls everything; c.f. the xz backdoor.

I'd suggest replacing the 'anonymous' column with 'requires PII'.

I prefer Matrix, but haven't heard of some of these.

@atomicpoet

Microsoft's 10K includes mandatory disclosures about significant business risks: "We derive substantial revenue from government contracts. [...] we could be suspended or debarred as a governmental contractor [...] Some agreements may allow a government to terminate without cause".

Project 2025 (page 258) says: "The next conservative Administration [..]
should eliminate funding for partners that promote discriminatory DEI practices
and consider debarment in egregious cases."

@cstross That link sent me down a Wikipedia rabbit hole which lead to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

Which was a local government coup/massacre in the US post-slavery where white supremacist ideology was explicitly and intentionally employed by shrewd politicians to manipulate poor white people into supporting them against their own best interests.

The catalyst? A black-owned newspaper claimed that not all interracial sex is rape.

Wilmington massacre - Wikipedia

@mattblaze It can be argued simultaneously that there should be social pressure to tolerate differences in communication norms, personality, and identity while also being the case that blocking need not be justified ("no is a complete sentence"). I expect people lacking emotional health and insight will use blocks inappropriately regardless of the principles their culture adopts so there is probably little to gain by engaging with the ad nauseam re-litigation of said principles.
DontReadLinesWithFor - Greg's Wiki