what leads you to believe that end to end encrypted communication is a net good for the world?

esp in liberal democratic countries where the governments are at least in theory accountable to the people

are the costs of letting malevolent actors coordinate worth the benefits? 

what exactly are those benefits that justify something like kiddie porn being easy to distribute at scale? 

or are the alleged liberal democracies currently in power more of a fiction than reality? 

or is it more that someday a less liberal less democratic regime will come into power?

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I’m gay, so encryption helps keep me safe from an increasingly authoritarian local government. The idea of Nazis organizing sleeves me out but the police have always turned a blind eye as their victims wind up in the hospital. It’s hard to balance the needs of the marginalized with safety.