[contrarian1234]

It'd give people all the more incentive to sideload and get off Google Play Store. That's a win win in my book. And Signal is a non-for-profit. I don't see why they'd care. Designing system that subvert authoritarian regimes.. what's more punk than that

If you have to ask governments for permission then that's a bad design and your system will be taken away from you when the next think-of-the-children populists are elected

If you work on the assumption all governments are eternally nice and well interventioned .. then E2E chat systems aren't all that necessary in the first place