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Maybe the treaty's exception for offenses of a political character applies here?
by amadeuspagel 4y ago
Maybe the treaty's exception for offenses of a political character applies here?
- anigbrowl 4y agoI doubt that. Signal themselves say they can't read the content of messages, so the UK prosecutors could argue that they're not being targeted over the content of the messages but the fact of enabling their concealment. Recall that in the US there is no explicit right to privacy. You might be able to make a 1A argument that manually encrypting a message is itself a speech act, but the government could theoretically ban the distribution tools like Signal and argue they have the authority under the commerce clause, which stands on a equal Constitutional footing to the 1A. I don't think this is likely, but I could easily see it being offered as the justification to honor a UK ban.