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 find recent episodes of Darknet Diaries thought-provoking on this subject, especially https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/146/ on ANOM: a privacy-enhanced phone targeted at criminals. Things get wild when the FBI gets access to a backdoor.

Other related episodes are #147 on Tornado Cash (is there a right to financial privacy?) and #131 on Welcome to Video (what should be done to prevent CSAM distribution?)

My personal stance is that benefits of cryptography probably outweigh the difficulties for law enforcement. The number of law enforcement success stories due to backdoors etc. seems quite low, and there are quite a few alarming stories of abuses thereof.

Pragmatically speaking, cryptography techniques are out there and neigh impossible to fully ban.

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