> gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services This is NOT enforceable outside the UK any more than Chinese law enforcea

> gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services This is NOT enforceable outside the UK any more than Chinese law enforceable outside China. If you are a messaging service, just close all your business entities in the UK and they have no more jurisdiction over you. People in the UK can still use your messaging services unless the UK decides to implement a firewall like China. > which will destroy end-to-end encryption I don't trust any E2E encryption unless at least the clients are open source. How do I know the NSA hasn't inserted a backdoor into WhatsApp? And then if the clients are open source, the back doors they insert (via git pull requests?) can be removed.