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Yes. The state has no right to hang anyone. The state has no right to take a life. When you take away encryption, The Innocent and the Guilty are punished, the innocent disproportionately.

That’s the beautiful thing: we don’t have to care what the government thinks. We are 30y into the encryption wars, and they cannot put the genie back in the bottle. It just is.



>The state has no right to take a life.

Some states have the death penalty.

>When you take away encryption, The Innocent and the Guilty are punished, the innocent disproportionately.

More information allows people to make a more informed decision. Punishing innocent people is a different problem separate from encryption.




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