

That headline is disgusting and classic straight out of the manufacturing consent model. Most people don’t read past headlines, and the headline implies there’s a divide among Israelis, it tries to hide the fact that they are overwhelmingly and incredibly openly genocidal.
They are overlapping areas, but they are “two completely different things”. They overlap by sharing common goals, not by being interchangeable.
Right. And Signal doesn’t provide that at all, it ties your private messages to your identity (phone number), it explicitly does not provide anonymity. In fact, it proudly advertises you as a signal user to other signal users that have your number saved. It allows you to post public status updates, it encourages you to save your first and last name on your account.
Okay? And? In this hypothetical world where Signal offered anonymity but still tied you to your number for other practical reasons, then you’re be correct that it would be a privacy concern.
But they don’t offer anonymity, they offer private conversations.