How does encryption (or the lack thereof) affect American freedom of speech online?
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So, if the courts are going to tap your phone line, they need a warrant & reason/purpose to do it. This was more relevant when every household had a landline phone, rather than everyone having a cell phone.
Banning encryption is like if they went back and “undid” that need for a warrant for line-tapping your phone. It wouldn’t be a matter of free speech, that’s a secondary concern after encryption banning would happen, since the fear is it’d turn into 1984/Big Brother-ish.
It’s more an issue of privacy.
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