Two points make this solution unlikely to meet the goals the author is attempting to meet: Those who are performing whatever evil acts of information sharing a

Two points make this solution unlikely to meet the goals the author is attempting to meet: Those who are performing whatever evil acts of information sharing are disallowed by the counsel will use tools that do not have a counsel who can backdoor the system. Attempting to solve the single point-of-failure backdoor by increasing the number of points by a modest amount still falls prey to making those individuals immediately attractive targets to those who wish to get at the plaintext. Bear in mind it needn't be a technical hack once someone holds keys. It could be a social mechanism that exposes one or more of the counsel member's keys via law of an oppressive government, or other coercion (blackmail, etc).