Can someone how the internet can just… not be encrypted anymore? Like isn’t the internet fundamentally like an open source thing? Obviously the average person can’t hack their way into any website but if the government doesn’t “own” the internet then how can they make legislation like EARN IT and KOSA and such?
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Imagine you and your best friend are very close, and you invent your own language. Whenever you communicate with your friend, you do it in your own language and nobody else can possibly understand what you’re saying because only you and your friend have the way to translate it.
But then you are told that while you don’t have to *stop* using your made up language, you do have to provide the government a full dictionary so that they can understand what you’re saying, just in case.
That’s the basic gist of it. End to end encryption scrambles what you are saying so only you and your endpoint can read it. But for security reasons, some government officials want the ability to unscramble it too just in case you are using it to do something illegal
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