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Wait until end-to-end encryption is illegal.

But they don't need to break the encryption because iMessage and WhatsApp are closed platforms without support for third party clients, so Apple and Facebook can just create a list of "undesirable" keywords and push it to the client (automatically, without any way for the user to opt-out) that would mark such messages or completely delete them.

FB has always censored many of its media. I have no doubt WhatsApp will be the next.

Both Apple and Facebook support this type of censorship.

As do many of their employees.

You don’t even need to make encryption illegal. You just need to backdoor it. Trivial for one or two well-placed developers.

You don't even need to back door it. WhatsApp already implemented restrictions on forwarding of messages, which shouldn't be possible if the encryption worked. Of course they didn't need to: you can just include a "forwarded counter" in the message and enforce it on the client. That trick can be done for any rule they wish to enforce.