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I don't think those issues are necessarily interconnected. If I have understood it correctly, many Germans view both hateful propaganda and surveillance as tools of dictators.

Surveillance of private communications obviously has a chilling effect on free speech as well, but freedom from surveillance does not imply a freedom to openly spread hate speech in public.

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Platforms like Signal don't really allow one to spread something "in public" since it's mostly 1-on-1 or small group chat. I know similar products like Telegram do have wider-range features though. Moreover, the concept of "hate speech" is fuzzy in a way that's easy to abuse.

At the end of the day, if someone makes a racist joke with their friend in a one-on-one chat app I would say that's neither hate speech, nor the public distribution of said speech, but I don't think Chat Control makes this distinction.

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