What if they decide tomorrow that critisising the government is unlawful? That you get arrested for being LGBTQ? Send “Free Palestine” at your friends and have cops at your door?

If they allow this scanning, they just need to edit a text file to immediately flag thousands for having certain beliefs.

Besides, the real criminals will just move encryption to a different level or find different ways to bypass this.

Ultimately, there’s only one solution for governments. That is to ban all encryption. And hopefully that’s something we never see happening.