Unfortunately it's not far fetched. I wish it were. It's just an unpleasant thought we've decided not to think about. LE are a US corp, subject to US laws, and

Unfortunately it's not far fetched. I wish it were. It's just an unpleasant thought we've decided not to think about. LE are a US corp, subject to US laws, and at the whim of US court orders. The implications of that are worth gaming out. Our laws are (arguably) mostly fair. But there are cases where they're not. Picture a world where an administration rises to power in the US on a platform that seems insane, but everybody endorses it anyway. And this platform just so happens to be against the sort of thing you're trying to do on the internet. Sci-hub are stealing. We as a community are mostly fine with that. We don't consider it stealing, because the moral good outweighs the bad by a hundred to one. But this isn't about Sci-hub. This is about a world in which we're free to do as we please, because we have the ability to decide what we want to do. If we want to make a site that can make information available, and someone else doesn't like that information or feels that they own it, what do you do? You have no power. And when you blindly put your faith in institutions like Let's Encrypt on their platform of openness and trust, you set yourself up for a shift: One day you wake up and find out you were mistaken, and we were all mistaken to push this centralized model in the name of security and convenience. And of course, that's the fundamental truth, isn't it? Liberties have always been eroded by pushing security and convenience. We should think carefully about who we trust, and why.