Companies whose mission is centered on user control and privacy can be held to a higher standard than other companies when it comes to these kinds of questions.

Companies whose mission is centered on user control and privacy can be held to a higher standard than other companies when it comes to these kinds of questions. It's perfectly reasonable to suggest that Element should have tossed out the idea of supporting Signal for this specific software offering, given the potential for collateral damage in the form of person A using it without person B being aware of this, particularly if person A does not grok that they are compromising person B's communications if they are using it. Disclaimers and warnings are not universal solutions to questions on ethics since they are not certain to be read or understood and will have some failure %. If the residual negative effects are likely to exceed the kinds of outcomes a company's core values can tolerate, then making those states unrepresentable by abandoning product ideas is sane.