Don't fucking lie to us. There is no way we believe the UI fail that this beta is was "shaped by feedback from community members". The comment system may not be enough to keep us if you keep on in this direction. Did you fire all your competent UI people and hire their grandchildren?

I've never seen a civil war up close before.

I don't feel like being restricted from speaking my mind just because I tried to mod up someone's post.

Just because it seems odd to you doesn't mean there's no sense to it, or even that you can't have a useful system with such a feature. Analogy: here in Canada, people who serve on a jury are normally explicitly forbidden discussing their deliberations (outside of the jury room), ever. See Section 6.2.

Why shouldn't 3rd party devs do this? MS has been doing it for forever.

Those five corporations have demonstrable incentives to not make email secure.

This meme HAS To die. Orwell's 1984 explictly included a manual as very long epilog.
Helpful hint: don't talk about books you haven't read as if you've read them. Whenever I do that, I end up looking like an idiot. Your mileage won't vary.

The world is a better place that you aren't allowed to recommend treatment. Your definition of extreme needs work, too.

So, all those attempts to break into our networks were really the fault of the Americans, and not the Chinese?

In case you haven't noticed, the USA has already turned very nasty.

Thank you, makes sense now. Mind you, I'm still of the opinion that avoiding standing out is the weaker solution, possibly even counterproductive. The results are a lot more rapid.
s/earned/obtained/

Pardon my ignorance, but google is unable to provide me with a definition of the word "refuser" that I can parse in the context of your post.

What is a refuser? And, what makes them different from people doing illegal stuff, yet readily lumped into the same group?

You may need to get clear in your thinking. "Hiding in plain sight" is a reaction, not a solution, to a panopticon. A solution means ending it, not making your life unlikely to draw attention.

I must have missed the memo. What damage? How does the world knowing that the NSA spies on a sizeable fraction (likely a majority) of US citizens (and residents) with a phone or net connection damage the US or "the West"? Embarrassment at the illegality and/or supreme wrongness of it doesn't count as damage.

Oh, and just to pre-empt the obvious objection: If I record when you call who and how long you keep the connection open, and I'm not the phone company preparing a bill for airtime and long-distance charges, I'm spying on you.

I feel the need to say this explicitly, rather than by the inference of moderation or the suggestion of Foeing you.
Your view is ignorant.
There. Now you can't say nobody ever told you. How you see it has little to do with the reality of the situation. Typing in complete, coherent sentences can't hide that.

First clue of troll post: stating that email is part of the web.

Second clue: every email client above the level of /usr/bin/mailx for the past few decades has user-defineable folders and multiple sort criteria. With the advent of filters, you don't even have to file manually.

Well done! See the coatcheck staff for your prize.

Did you even read the article? The authorship in this particular case is irrelevant - unless... can you point out what lies were presented in that article?