[throw0101b]

> […] to prevent carriers from trying to either (a) undermine e2ee in some weasely way […]

Reminder that carriers have lawful intercept mandates through legal statutes: it may actually be illegal for them to implement E2EE.

[rpmisms]

Yeah, they can read what you send. If what you send is encrypted, they can read that too, just not in decrypted form.