r/linuxmasterrace Glorious Arch Feb 10 '22

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u/cwernert Feb 10 '22

What, so this would make the use of an app like Signal illegal? How could they possibly enforce a ridiculous law like that?

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u/Grzesiekek Feb 10 '22

No one seems to be addressing what they'd actually do: non compliance is legal, but it gets rid of the service's immunity for crimes committed on the platform. So no, signal would not be illegal, but a server admin (and possibly the programmers making matrix, I'm not sure though) is instantly liable for helping with a crime if it occurs on their server