makes me lose faith in Debian as an organisation
AFAIK this person has been also banned by FOSDEM and FSFE and others so I would take his statement with a pinch of salt before blaming Debian:
https://lwn.net/Articles/888204/ https://fsfe.org/about/legal/minutes/minutes-2019-10-12.en.pdf https://openlabs.cc/en/statement-we-have-been-a-target-of-disinformation-efforts-our-initial-reaction/
You just described what Briar is designed to do: multi-hop over WiFi and Bluetooth.
The whole approach to security of Tox was very questionable since the beginning. Tox even hinted at being able to withstand attacks from nation-states (see below), while at the same time it was not audited by 3rd parties and had no clear description of their threat model. A number of question and bug reports where quickly dismissed.
“Whether it’s corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in.”.
The tables here are more clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-software_license#Comparison
This is not correct. If anything, any global observer is likely to monitor Tor traffic much more closely than regular traffic and can perform both inspection and correlation to deanonimize users.
Use only applications that are safe to use with Tor. Ask the upstream developers if needed. Ask other people to help fixing existing applications.
This sounds very much like a smear piece. For a list of projects receiving funding see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation
product
“something (such as a service) that is marketed or sold as a commodity” (Merriam Webster)
“object or system made available for consumer use; it is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer” (Wikipedia)
In short: paid software is a product. A volunteering effort is not a product, it’s a gift.
Complaining about a gift not being good enough is quite entitled.
Not just DMCAs. People have been arrested and even imprisoned for writing software that is clearly designed to facilitate copyright infringement.
Arguing around technicalities is not an effective defense, especially when the goal of downloading movies is made very clear by remarks like:
“last” launch of my “favorite movie” (sarcasm).
Some examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial
https://www.theverge.com/2015/8/20/9181243/popcorn-time-how-to-sites-arrested
https://torrentfreak.com/police-arrest-men-for-spreading-popcorn-time-information-150819/
The price is a bit shocking.