Comment by harry8
15 days ago
Anyone else thinking this looks like precursor to banning Signal and similar?
1) Put google in control of what you can install.
2) Get google to block it.
Noting that making it harder to install does most of the job as you need you contacts to use signal before you can.
Signal (Open Whispers) is likely CIA funded. It's like TOR (made by the Navy/DARPA): make something that works so your own operatives can hide behind it too
https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/signal-facing-collapse-after...
https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/court-docs-show-fbi-can-interc...
Maybe not Signal in the immediate future, but for sure NewPipe, offline MP3 players and many ad blockers.
If they wanted to block Signal why wouldn't they start with the Play Store version which 99% of users use?
Because then you get a fight. Signal moves to F-Droid and F-Droid gets a huge mindshare increase and much harder to kill.
Signal is today's thing the security state in Europe & the US clearly hate and want to backdoor and destroy. So let's speculate they'd rather be able to make sure that no app, for any purpose that they don't control can survive or succeed?