It is like doping drugs, while having disastrous long term effects, they may give real boost short term. When writers look at this from a peaceful netizen perspective, that is bordering with insanity, okay. In a span of 10-20 years it would make online business and software development in English-speaking states handicapped to the brink of existence. But is there any real problem in it? Entrepreneurs and economists many said âoebrace for impactâ, waiting the crisis started in 2008 to ruin global economy. If impact is inevitable, then maybe you can at least steer to some chosen place of impact? If your car slides on icy road out of control, where would you like it to stop finally, on the opposite traffic lane, on some light pole on the shoulder, or with some luck in the snow field over the shoulder? If the Empire of English-speaking nations is maybe going to WW3 as their chosen target to impact, then mandating total control over citizens communication is not a stupidity but the only rational and unavoidable choice they have to make no matter if they or voters like it or not. Whether software industry survives it or not is so irrelevant....

you does not have to check traffic to see unusual one, when you just can ask Microsoft/Google/Apple if there are unusual programs installed on computer/phone

they do not even "meet offline" They just have a number of new cheap phones. They talk in open, then get rid of them and unpack another. Suiciders do not really need to be never found. They just have to have few days gap. Enough. And if they are actively covered by security services like in London, then they do not need even this

Why fork anything? Any XMPP server would do