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Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. We join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.

Doug Webb

@signalapp Issue clause seems to be 98(4):

"(4) A person commits an offence if, in response to an information notice, the
person—

(a) provides information which is encrypted such that it is not possible for OFCOM to understand it, or produces a document which is encrypted such that it is not possible for OFCOM to understand the information it contains, and

(b) the person’s intention was to prevent OFCOM from understanding such information."

bills.parliament.uk/publicatio

@douginamug soo if I send a pgp encrypted message via a messenger, the service provider would commit an offence because they didn’t decrypt it?:D

@lenny_ I guess that's where the concern comes from.

Perhaps the provider causes an offence by allowing encryption. Or perhaps you as a user get served the information notice, and you cause an offence by not decrypting!

Nothing out of reach. I wonder how this would be implemented. Would the UK require Google/Apple to not allow apps like Signal and Element in their app stores for the UK? Will they drop routes to Signal's servers?

@djsumdog @signalapp "hahaha... implementation?"

Or something like that.