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US citizens have a significant better chance at fighting a warrant. Personally, we've been using Jitsi for video. It's not amazing, but it is free in many senses of the word.


Zoom is a US company founded by an American citizen.


Zoom is a US company founded by an immigrant from China with 700 employees in China where the software and product development teams are. All 700 of those employees can be leaned on to break security generally or to break it for one specific person or meeting, even if we don’t believe there management of the Chinese or American parts of the firm won’t just do what the CPC ask them to do.


Which closed the account of a US-based activist for hosting a Tiananmen event.


Two comments recommending Jitsi. Suspicious.


Jitsi is pretty good. If you know a better FOSS tool for videoconferencing, I'd be happy to check it out.



If you find a better one that is not absolutely arcane and frustrating to use, let me know.

Until then, Jitsi is "good enough", even if it's still pretty rough in certain parts.


I love Jitsy for Video, but for schooling i prefer BigBlueButton it's also FOSS, but yes it's really not the same 'product-category':

https://bigbluebutton.org/


Why is that suspicious?




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