[macilacilove]

Regular people talk illegal things on messenger all the time, and if law enforcement gets addicted to sweet data requests, users will flee to wherever.

E2E messaging is a better product. Offering it free (at a loss) makes it hard to beat.

What's more, some major govts may be prompted to ban E2E, so they keep their data and kill Signal and others, while they are the 'good guys'.

FB can probably create a 99% accurate ad profile on you with just metadata, likes and tracking you on the web. If not they can push local profiling models on your phone.

With all that said, I still think it is a genuinely good thing for humanity as it is now, and I am cautiously optimistic.