Canary coal mine kind of signal (pardon the pun)

Edit: they also obviously do not have a choice. If they legally must weaken their work and the core of their work is that it's not weak... then they have no work. So they can't accept it.

If signal pulls out of Europe we're in a pretty fucked state. Apps like signal will be reduced to operations it a few fringe countries eventually

Signal does not have a large enough userbase to threaten something like this. EU will just shrug and move on.

This is the right choice.

I always threaten to pull out, but I never do

Shocker. I do however wonder what prevents someone from downloading and installing the apk to their phone. Am I wrong in believing this is a real way to bypass them leaving a market?

Please check out https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ if you want to take action against this.

I don't understand how this "threat" is supposed to work. If the law passes won't any and all chat encryption be affected? In that case it doesn't matter how you get the app, or if you manage to get it in europe. Its encryption will be broken/unavailable.

Anywhere to petition or digitally sign?