This appears to be another case of having to defend the rights of a least attractive practitioner of those rights :/
A/I do in fact vet their applicants, and some of those applicants are in fact violent terrorists (e.g. the group destroying power infrastructure in Europe). They're certainly not a common carrier (to use the US term; unsure if there's a similar concept in Europe).
But as Reason magazine puts it:
... Secretary of State Marco Rubio is attacking the group for running an online platform that the U.S. government can't spy on and for facilitating communications the U.S. government doesn't like.
[OP] dustyweb | 8 hours ago
Unfortunately, the link I had submitted originally wasn't quite right. Fixed now! The writeup here has a lot of interesting history.
duncan_bayne | 4 hours ago
This appears to be another case of having to defend the rights of a least attractive practitioner of those rights :/
A/I do in fact vet their applicants, and some of those applicants are in fact violent terrorists (e.g. the group destroying power infrastructure in Europe). They're certainly not a common carrier (to use the US term; unsure if there's a similar concept in Europe).
But as Reason magazine puts it:
https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/