I don't think that works in countries with a jury system. I don't have anything illegal on my computers, but I would never give up my passwords to anyone working for the government. I think the odds that at least one person who is like me (or can at least understand that mindset) will be on any given jury is pretty good.
I think the people who support things like mandating USB-C, forcing open the App Store, and GDPR are misguided at best. These are significant transfers of power from the (mostly) organic and consensual realm of individuals and businesses to the coercive realm of state force. You can always buy an android phone (with USB-C) and use GrapheneOS, F-droid, Tutanota, Brave Search, Odysee, Mastodon, Matrix, etc. to get most of what you want without asking unaccountable bureaucracies to enforce your will on everyone else by the threat of violence.
I have a special hatred for GDPR for contributing to balkanization of the internet, and for the annoying cookie warnings that sometimes breaks sites when you disable cookies at the browser level. The only way GDPR actually improves my privacy is by forcing me to use a VPN to access some sites.
Actually you can use it to take down personal information, sort of like DMCA is used for copyrighted content.
Pretty much any website threatened with GDPR will remove your photos/phone number/email/whatever, they're not worth the fine. You could then still report them tbh (it has to be reported to whatever enforcement agency in the country it's hosted in, though, which only exist in the EU and are a pain to deal with).
These are from companies who are too lazy to properly comply with the GDPR, or worse, plainly illegal. It's not the fault of the GDPR that many companies choose not to be compliant. (The national regulators should absolutely clamp down harder on these non-compliant cookie popups)
When you make a law, you are responsible for the consequences of that law. It's like when the British colonial authorities inadvertently incentivized the breading of cobras, and how modern drug warriors push users to more dangerous substances. You are legislating reality, not a fantasy world where you have total control.
You want us to ask a government, an absolute monopoly sustain by force to break up Cloudflare in the name of opposing monopolies/oligopolies? Despite the fact that Cloudflare only has power to the extent individual website owners voluntarily choose to use them? That doesn't make any sense.
The only way you would know there is a blockchain involved is by reading the white paper or looking at the code. There are is no currency or token involved when using the app. I don't understand your last sentence at all.
I think session has some advantages over signal. Such as onion routing, not needing to interact with centralised servers, and not requiring a phone number.
Not who you're asking, on a technical aspect, briar is p2p so the recipient must be online in order to send them a message, there's no server to queue and send the message when the recipient comes online. This affects UX quite a bit as well.
