"Trust us, we have a safety mechanism in place."

What safety mechanism? Can they elaborate, especially when they're asking for backdoors/tools that will enable them to view private messages of anybody using the platform?

This is just a complete violation of individual privacy rights. Hope there's other apps and platforms out there that will operate just out of the governments eyes that will still offer encrypted messaging.

I'm not an encryption guru and I don't know the specifics about how they want to add a backdoor to these apps, but can't we generate our own keys to share between people we want to communicate with, removing the need to have these apps provide encryption?

Never trust your government (at least in the western world! Some european countries do actually care about their people). They don't care about you one bit other than your ability to shut up and pay taxes. You are a resource to them and if they can control you by reading your messages and punishing you if try and go against their rules, they will.

"How can a French protester be arrested under British terrorism laws in London?" - https://theconversation.com/how-can-a-french-protester-be-ar...

"Terror law used for Iceland deposits" - https://www.ft.com/content/abf583de-9546-11dd-aedd-000077b07...

But hey, "they must have done something, that surely won't happen to me, if I stay put and say yes to everything". Such freedom.