Note how, in an article scaremongering about @signalapp and links to extremism, the only actual example provided is an 800-member "Stop The Steal" group on @TelegramApp. Why is that? https://usanewssite.com/news/signal-barely-knows-anything-about-its-tens-of-millions-of-new-users-experts-and-employees-worry-its-an-extremist-free-for-all/

It's because Signal has no ability to see what its users are saying. At all.

But if it ever bowed to law enforcement pressure to weaken its encryption, articles like this make me think it would be about 5 minutes before law enforcement shut Signal down.

As soon as Signal's few employees start to know what users on their platform are saying, the Censors will argue that they must selectively purge that content, or else they will breach a "duty of care" or be "facilitators of terrorism" or what not

...in the same sense as, you know, good roads facilitate extremism by allowing both extremists and non-extremists to use them...

Encrypted systems frustrate censorship by design. Signal's protocols protect free speech, which increasingly means protecting truly anonymous speech.

If extremists use Signal's infrastructure to promote extremism (however defined), then that's on them; some people just suck.

And I'm hyper-aware that there are plenty of censorious people out there willing to treat surveillance reform orgs like @Restore_The4th as "extremist."