Not in Iran. Not during demonstrations. Not in Kurdish-dominated areas. You can narrow it down as much as you'd like.

And while you'd think that senseless violence against civilians do not scale, times of civil protests in totalitarian regimes is not good time to be naive.

Shutting down routing for the entire country is pretty much par for the course. There's not such thing as collateral damage when the regime itself gets scared.

Not in places like Cuba, where I know first hand, people who participated in the protest in July 11th where charged based on the apps the police and G2(Cuban FSB) found in their phones.

> Arresting people for having Signal installed is not a scalable approach for a totalitarian state.

Not all of those are in the same country, though, and it’s worth thinking about how the install base would change after a particular country banned an app. The first time someone gets an official warning a lot of people are going to say “not worth it”.

No, but banning them from the cell network is.