Brian Lawson<p>Genuinely naive question. 🙋♂️ </p><p>If <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/TikTok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TikTok</span></a> can be pulled from the App Stores and make it hard/impossible for new users to install, could that happen for secure messaging apps (<a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a>, <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/session" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>session</span></a>, <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/simplex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>simplex</span></a>, <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matrix</span></a> / <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/element" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>element</span></a>, <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/deltachat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deltachat</span></a>, etc.)? </p><p>I know that the TikTok thing was years in the making, but there is some crazy shit happening pretty quickly lately. </p><p><a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/securemessaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>securemessaging</span></a> <a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/securemessenger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>securemessenger</span></a> <br><a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <br><a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>encryption</span></a> <br><a href="https://hoosier.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>