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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On top of everything everyone else is saying, I'd also add that the *physical-space* surveillance capabilities that governments have increased massively over the past 20 years. So if we don't have strong privacy in the digital space, we have no privacy at all. I find that deeply scary.

Also on top of that, even if you trust governments, centralized points of data collection get hacked all the time. Incidents are easy to find, just google it (in all countries: USA, China, etc). And so minimizing data collection is just a matter of basic prudence.

Also also, the possibility of things like this is on its own a pretty good argument for being absolutist about secure devices and comms imo:

Also also, the possibility of things like this is on its own a pretty good argument for being absolutist about secure devices and comms imo:

https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1828054194848170321

"Less liberal less democratic regimes coming to power" isn't even a faraway threat anymore, it feels like it's the reality in the average democratic country in the past decade.