It is indeed a weird mix in China, but I had not expected this one. Its a law that could be useful everywhere, even though it is hard to prove.

Strange to see China of all places to be societal ahead of everyone else.

I was thinking of joining GitHub back then, but the announcement that MS is buying it put me off. I was right from the start.

I never assumed that this presumed “end to end encryption” was secure in any way. The key exchange either runs over Meta servers, and they just log them, or the client software simply surrenders the key (maybe always, maybe on demand) together with the data stream that still runs over Meta servers.