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Signal (Open Whispers) is likely CIA funded. It's like TOR (made by the Navy/DARPA): make something that works so your own operatives can hide behind it too

Maybe not Signal in the immediate future, but for sure NewPipe, offline MP3 players and many ad blockers.

If they wanted to block Signal why wouldn't they start with the Play Store version which 99% of users use?

Because then you get a fight. Signal moves to F-Droid and F-Droid gets a huge mindshare increase and much harder to kill.

Signal is today's thing the security state in Europe & the US clearly hate and want to backdoor and destroy. So let's speculate they'd rather be able to make sure that no app, for any purpose that they don't control can survive or succeed?