Interesting side note, if the concern is that this end-to-end messaging is being made available through the same service that hosts social profiles - instead of

Interesting side note, if the concern is that this end-to-end messaging is being made available through the same service that hosts social profiles - instead of asking the company to please-please-please include backdoors thank-you... maybe, just maybe, it's time to break up a vertically integrated monopoly - when your argument is that their vertical integration is literally a threat to public safety. This will, of course, never happen because breaking up businesses and consumer protection is verboten and anti-american, but I really wish someone with a big voice could stand up and make this point because it makes them look silly.