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 wrote a good post, the reaction is not surprising unfortunately. If you got through to at least one person you did a good thing. The anti-china hysteria on reddit is insufferable