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Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe (www.bluewin.ch)

submitted 21 hours ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 22 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

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.