I have given people a few well known guides and writeups. If you think r/privacy is a friend reliable enough
- https://teddit.net/r/privacy/comments/hlqayn/cia_have_encryption_backdoor_on_signal_according/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220418214833/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/e9t4ck/a_user_here_threw_ad_hominem_at_a_wikileaks_tweet/
American moderators that run iPhones and once even attempted mass brigading a subreddit of 100K+ people to mass report and sitewide ban me.
You’re doing a good thing here, and I think people in general (not redditors) are slowly starting to realize that western tech companies don’t have their interests in mind.
I have left most tech and privacy oriented subreddits as well for precisely the reasons you mention. There’s no genuine criticism of western companies and governments, while Russia and China are made out to be evil beyond compare in every other post.
This shit takes a lot of courage. I do not know of any tech/privacy oriented communities that stand up, they all stand down and boot lick.