This is how it works: The Government will shut down the apps that refuse to cooperate with the state until either they start to cooperate, or people migrate to

This is how it works: The Government will shut down the apps that refuse to cooperate with the state until either they start to cooperate, or people migrate to the ones who already do cooperate with the state. Simple. Either way, the state wins, since not all chat apps are self-righteous enough to say no to a lucrative market on principle of refusing to cooperate with a nation state. They learned that from watching companies bend over backwards for the Chinese market.