New messaging apps from inside the EU neither make it easier nor harder to imprison visiting billionaires from outside the bloc who violated local law with the messaging apps they wrote abroad.
In much the same way that the mere existence of Dropbox doesn't preclude the USA from prosecuting Kim Dotcom.
> Messaging apps from EU make it easier to imprison the EU-based owners and employees, and thus easier to control the platform.
Not when "the platform" is from outside the EU, as Telegram is.
For any question along the lines of "is Telegram in breach of legal obligations?" there's zero connection to what any other messaging app does.
If I set up a local company for a local messaging app and local government leans on me about it, that government doing so makes zero difference to an outside company such as Telegram.
> If Dotcom was in the US he would be in prison for a decade. It's a huge difference.
His home was raided in 2012 and he's lost his last battle against extradition despite some intermediate wins about the raid itself.
You seem to think that a new local platform excludes existing platforms, this is now how anything works and would be a fantastic money making strategy if it did.
>The European Commission has told its staff to start using Signal, an end-to-end-encrypted messaging app, in a push to increase the security of its communications.
This is probably more about keeping their communications from the public's prying eyes. In the U.S. this sort of thing is illegal: all intra-government communications must be a matter of record except for oral communications.
Now if only the conversations in which US politicians get bribed (I guess calling it "lobbied" sounds nicer. Especially as a prerequisite to a "donation") would be a matter of public record
>> @amelius: Can't the EU make their own messaging app?
> @tptackek: Wasn't Matrix in the running for this?
Three points:
1) From https://matrix.org/foundation/about/: The evolution of Matrix is managed through an open governance process, looked after by The Matrix.org Foundation - a non-profit UK Community Interest Company, incorporated to act as the neutral guardian of the standard on behalf of the whole Matrix community.
2) Matrix is a protocol, not a messaging app.
3) UK is no longer EU.
Read it however you like, I'm simply pointing out that private efforts in non-EU member states are difficult to roll under "EU effort to create their own messaging app".
