Well the why is obvious, no? To associate privacy with criminality, and condition the sheep to remain transparent, and to add peer pressure against encryption and secure computing, so that the surveillance state might live to control the masses.

That criminals use #GrapheneOS is about as interesting an observation as that darknet markets run on #monero

Of course they do. Those are the tools that work, and these people operate in an extreme environment where their liberty, lifestyle and profits are on the line if the tools are not as good as they think.

That is a legitimate claim grounded in empirical fact. But that is very different than what the Statist authoritarians put out there, which goes more like "only criminals use such tools and their access must be restricted or the effectiveness of the tools somehow compromised".

And that is about as smart as saying we should ban knives because some people like to go on stabbing sprees every so often.

The vast, vast majority of GrapheneOS users are just normal people who understand why they need GrapheneOS. Don't let this slandering get to you, and keep up the good work 🔐