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by antisocialist 1203 days ago
Of course they will, because their security and privacy features would be misleading and rendered useless by this legislation. They have no choice.

Resident crypto-haters can hate coin-based privacy networks all they want, but fully decentralized encrypted messaging will remain the only way to get E2EE private messaging and chat in free speech hellholes such as Iran, China, the UK, and the EU.

Those organizations have no entity that does business anywhere (including the UK), and doesn't need anyone's permit to make its endpoints accessible to anyone.

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Nothing about cryptocurrencies are needed for making a decentralized encrypted messager.

That Signal has public, known contributors and servers is a choice by their developers, not something necessitated by the fact that they didn't host it on ethereum or whatever.

> …and doesn't need anyone's permit to make its endpoints accessible to anyone.

Until exactly that is being made illegal.