Again, I am against ChatControl (before getting downvoted).

> You're saying it's reasonable that they want warp cores today

I am not. If they asked for warp cores today, I would say they are idiots. But they are not.

Not so long ago, communications on the Internet were not end-to-end encrypted: WhatsApp put e2ee on the map by integrating the Signal protocol in 2016. That's less than a decade ago. Not long before that (a few years, really), I had a Firefox extension that could get the credentials of people connecting to their Facebook account over HTTP while on the same network. For decades, the police has been able to just tap phone lines.

Did all countries turn authoritarian because of that? Not at all. Now we're coming with better encryption, and some politicians see it as a degradation of security ("we can't do what we used to do to chase criminals"). And they are right!

Security is a tradeoff. You and I believe that in 2025 it's better to have strong encryption for the masses, even if it makes it harder to tap on criminal conversations. Because whoever gets access to all that data has a lot of power.

But now go to an average person and ask them how much they care about the privacy issues in today's Internet? They don't give a shit. They will let anyone collect their data if they get a discount for it. They "have nothing to hide". They just don't see the problem.

Politicians are normal people. They also don't see the problem with weakening encryption (to a state that, as far as they understand, is still better than what used to be not so long ago) in order to not weaken security.

Telling them that they are idiots is not the way to convince them that they may be wrong.