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TeslaLiberty | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 How does this affect signal users ?
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Aurora | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Just like with the online safety bill, Signal will (legally speaking) leave the EU. Should EU countries try to block Signal they'll do what they can to let us still use signal, see #iRanASignalProxy for example
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🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Signal is FOSs? If so they have no legs
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Aurora | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Signal is licensed under the AGPLv3 and as such, Free and Open Source.
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🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Its code, same like law
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Aurora | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 you can't exactly make maths illegal anyways 🤷
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🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Revolution time
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Raymon | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm in for a fight against this - as programmer and hacker 😎
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Electric Sheep | 2 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 "Signal is licensed under the AGPLv3 and as such, Free and Open Source."

Correct. Unfortunately it's also rigidly centralised. So state-level actors only need to block one set of servers and it's unusable (eg Signal is very hard to use in China due to the Great Firewall). Matrix is a better bet, both E2EE and Free and Open Source software, *and* a decentralised protocol anyone can implement.