Will resolve YES if four of the seven nations in G7 (France, United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada) have banned messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption, or have otherwise made these apps non-functional or non-private when used in those nations.
Will resolve NO if these apps are still legal and functional in at least four of the seven nations that comprise G7.
banned messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption
Wording clarification: this only counts bans of end-to-end encryption overall, not of specific messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption, right?
By way of example, if a country allowed end-to-end encryption, but specifically banned WhatsApp (which in some configurations may have such encryption) and not other messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption, that wouldn't count for this market?
I'd have to look at the specifics but a de facto ban (i.e. banning all the common apps used for end to end encryption messaging but not explicitly end to end encryption) would count as YES.
Banning just WhatsApp but leaving Signal or another prominent and easily accessible app free to be used with zero restrictions would count as NO.
That answers my question, thank you. Agreed that banning them all, or all the important ones, individually, should definitely still count.
A long history of tricky market descriptions and resolutions led me to spot "banned messaging apps that use end-to-end encryption" and wonder "any messaging apps, or all messaging apps", and how you'd resolve the market if some country banned Signal specifically but not any other application.