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Comment by jhasse

14 days ago

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?