Thank you.
Signal is the middle finger to bulk data collection, not the state.
When you piss off even one man, as long as he isn't in a cage, your life is in his hands. Now apply that to people with a badge who's job it is to spy, lie and kill.
In low-tech 1950's Russia you couldn't even whisper to your closest friend, and nobody was walking around with a tape recorder.
Free speech is an ideal, and no person or document will guarantee your rights. Wake up, you aren't in 5th grade anymore, you can live in reality.
If you want rights, you must seize them, protect them, and defend them for others.