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Re:Democrat Groups Plan to “Fact Check” Private Text Messages by 6f8986c3 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @07:30PM (#27827488)
Both Apple and Facebook support this type of censorship.

As do many of their employees.

You don’t even need to make encryption illegal. You just need to backdoor it. Trivial for one or two well-placed developers.

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Re:Democrat Groups Plan to “Fact Check” Private Text Messages by native_samples on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @06:13AM (#27831417)
You don't even need to back door it. WhatsApp already implemented restrictions on forwarding of messages, which shouldn't be possible if the encryption worked. Of course they didn't need to: you can just include a "forwarded counter" in the message and enforce it on the client. That trick can be done for any rule they wish to enforce.
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