I'm unsure whether it's appropriate to trust Le Parisien's equivalencies.

Q: Do they have a track-record of intellectual honesty?

Equivalencies are powerful, and dangerous if mis-handled.

E.g. this is worrying [from the article]: "A unique feature of GrapheneOS is that it can be obtained both on the dark web and on mainstream websites." Le Parisien is calling out GrapheneOS's availability on the "Dark Web" as significant, in the context of "Drug Trafficker's Secret Weapon". Banned books can also be acquired on the Dark Web, and banned books are not illegal, yet, in mainstream democracies. So Le Parisien's equivalency, here, is misleading.

> and banned books are not illegal, yet,

now now comrade, if the book is banned, how is it that you are in possession of it? you're clearly breaking the rules. I do believe it is time for you to start counting trees

<3 I do see this style of speech, which you're obviously playing with here, more and more coming from my US government. "What do you have to hide" kind of stuff. (From my individual perspective.)

It is disconcerting, as it's unclear whether the rule-of-law still stands, given the anti-Constitutionality of the current US Administration -- especially around due-process.

The trend of Democratic Decline seems provably real, along with a rise in Authoritarianism.