Governments consider the Internet (and ultimately what they truly want, a national/EU Intranet) to be a public place, including privately run websites and apps - no expectation of privacy and everything including your identity can be seen or heard by anyone else on request. As we've seen with age and ID verification, that is also a push toward implementing real world laws into cyber space. Things like public order law, sexual harassment law and the banning of causing offence.
The EU (and the UK) won't care if Signal leaves, if anything, that's what they want. Then they can curate their own internal network with their own services that they fully control just like China to "protect the children".
Governments consider the Internet (and ultimately what they truly want, a national/EU Intranet) to be a public place, including privately run websites and apps - no expectation of privacy and everything including your identity can be seen or heard by anyone else on request. As we've seen with age and ID verification, that is also a push toward implementing real world laws into cyber space. Things like public order law, sexual harassment law and the banning of causing offence.
The EU (and the UK) won't care if Signal leaves, if anything, that's what they want. Then they can curate their own internal network with their own services that they fully control just like China to "protect the children".