I'd say it's more like a global broad push to kill privacy than encryption specifically. Encryption is a big part of it, but not the whole picture
* Flock monitoring
* Border device searches
* Age controls and the implied "hand over real ID"
* Push for backdoors
* Palantir & DOGE grabbing data
* Move towards cloud (and less ability to afford own hardware)
* Secure boot style attestation
* Cross device tracking
* CF and friends acting as internet police
* GrapheneOS troubles
* Independent sites dying & more focus on walled gardens
...some of those aren't necessarily intentional (e.g. price of hardware), but it's hard not to read this as a larger agenda of sorts. Or maybe I'm just paranoid haha
I'd say it's more like a global broad push to kill privacy than encryption specifically. Encryption is a big part of it, but not the whole picture
* Flock monitoring
* Border device searches
* Age controls and the implied "hand over real ID"
* Push for backdoors
* Palantir & DOGE grabbing data
* Move towards cloud (and less ability to afford own hardware)
* Secure boot style attestation
* Cross device tracking
* CF and friends acting as internet police
* GrapheneOS troubles
* Independent sites dying & more focus on walled gardens
...some of those aren't necessarily intentional (e.g. price of hardware), but it's hard not to read this as a larger agenda of sorts. Or maybe I'm just paranoid haha