People were applauding the banning of Chinese apps (most of which were obviously malware). But they got too comfortable with their government getting authoritarian. Now, look how the turn tables.
I don't see signal/wire/whatsapp being mentioned. why tho? because they leak metadata? or work with the government? 🤔 Comments from Element make it even more suspicious.
Element already published a statement regarding the issue explaining that they do reply to Indian government requests: "While Element never compromises end-to-end encryption or user privacy, we have been contacted by Indian authorities in the past and addressed them in a constructive fashion (typically responding same-day). Indeed our Trust & Safety team works with governments to build safer secure communications for everyone; while ensuring user privacy and protecting end-to-end encryption."
Basically they do follow up with the government requests but that wasn't good enough. But Signal/Whatsapp/Wire are more government friendly? Facebook obviously is, but signal is far more popular than any of the apps banned. Yet, it is not blocked.