But what does that mean today

The first thing you need to understand is: if any government is demanding a back door to a messenger in the name of law enforcement, they are lying. It is simple as that.

Everybody spending more than 10 seconds on the subject knows that there are hundreds of alternatives out there. And somebody actually needing a way to keep illegal activities hidden will just switch over to something else.

There is only one reason to push for such an idea (and always for the popular messenger options of course): Wanting to surveil ordinary citizens that don’t think much about which platform they use. Because everyone else will be gone from the platform in the blink of an eye.

So this means exactly nothing for you if you want to keep using Signal. Because they won’t stop you and they won’t care. You are not the target if you actually think about consequences. They aim at the majority that will just move on to the next popular mainstream option over time once Signal isn’t available in the domestic app store anymore… hopefully (or not… depending on your perspective) to an option that will not resist demands for an backdoor when the time comes.

Reality?

An analysis by Politico paints a bleak picture of the German economy

Politico is owned by Germany’s biggest right-wing desinformation producer and painted a “bleak picture” day 1 after the last election while blaming a new government that would not come to office for another two months. They are also owned by KKR which is the reason they were pushing hard against any actual energy or transport transformation for years in the interest of their fossil fuel loving owners.

But don’t worry. The conservative morons will be back in office soon and then all those messages will magically disappear. The actual numbers won’t be any better of course and in fact their retarded policies of clinging to technologies and business models running into a dead end will damage Germany for years to come. But as reality doesn’t count anymore in our post-factual age, all will be well (and anything that can’t be just ignored can be blamed on immigration and other lazy people trying to live of social welfare for more division and moving the discussion even further to the right).