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In other news, Signal now protects its users by moderating any illegal content ..
.. oh wait, it's end to end encrypted .. so no .. it cannot.
(Said with fingers crossed whilst holding breath)
I trust open source more than I do something like WhatsApp that is owned by Meta/Facebook. The source code is on Github and I assume if there ware any concerns we would know about it. Also there's safety numbers.
You can breath now 😊
How do you know the source code on GitHub is what is being ran in production?
For Android they have reproducible builds to verify that they are using the source code from their public repo for the app distributed via Google's Play Store.
Regarding the server software, it's not that easy but because of the Signal protocol you can be sure that messages are e2e encrypted and authenticated. They also have the sealed sender feature which hides the identity of the sender. So it shouldn't really matter what software a server is using.
Well you can still 'moderate' if the ends choose to be open.
And you can ban identified bad users
What are you trying to say here? It sounds like your against end to end encryption?
The opposite. End to end encryption is what's preventing moderation.