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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 315 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Just for convenience (since it's hard to read the screenshot on a phone), here's the text:

GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code. Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors. Due to this, we're leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms. People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS. /e/ receives substantial government funding. Both are extremely non-private and secure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding. We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

we're sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the sewer

That's one way to describe Discord.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Lol, I've corrected that now. An OCR Freudian slip.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 101 points 2 days ago

Next time I go to the comments first...

[–] Anonymouse@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

Thanks for posting the contents of the image. This is especially important for folks using a screen reader and the source content is behind a paywall or login link.

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago
[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Real heroes are in the comments.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I live in Slovakia and no one gives a shit what you have on your phone here.