It will be used to target certain individuals and “nail” their proverbial “balls to the wall” when they want to ruin your life for not complying.

A us court just convicted people as terrorists and one of the main reasons they cited is that they were using signal.

“This individual circumvented security measures enacted by the united States to keep people and the children™ safe from online threats both foreign and domestic. The individual conspired with multiple other people some of them from other countries, oops we meant foreign adversaries, to destroy or circumvent this framework we had in place”

Only thing I can mainly compare it to is how weed isn’t legal in a lot of places but they usually don’t care, until they suddenly do and your life is fucked.

Think of people like Ken Klippenstein and your Edward Snowdens (who used tails to leak a lot of their illegal spying shit btw which is us made btw where these laws are starting to gain traction the most [yes I see Brazil too])

It will be used to target individuals and destroy their lives through the process.