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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by balfirevic on Sunday March 26, 2017 @09:54AM (#13960789)
> IFF the relationship between the states and the governed was healthy you wouldn't bat an eyelash at the suggestion.

Please clarify what suggestion you mean: that XMPP clients are telecommunication services or that their developers need to register?

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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by eternalban on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:19AM (#13960885)
The client is a component of a communication service. Such components used to be (mainly devices and) developed solely by corporations already integrated into the 'system'.

You don't trust the system, and you have good reasons for that, and the 'system' doesn't trust actors it does not control.

It is that simple.

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Re:Germany’s Federal Network Agency wants to regulate XMPP c... by balfirevic on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:35AM (#13960974)
I just asked for a clarification of what suggestion you exactly meant in your original comment and I still have no idea after this response.
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