> They didn't enjoy this level of access when people communicated by written letters nor when they spoke to each other over analog telephones. I would think th

> They didn't enjoy this level of access when people communicated by written letters nor when they spoke to each other over analog telephones. I would think the appropriate comparison is neither of those, but rather "when people met in person". Usage of the internet today is much closer to what people did when meeting in person than when writing letters or even when talking on the phone, it is replacing a lot of direct face-to-face contact. The demand to forbid E2E encryption is analogous to the demand that every citizen always has to make sure that the government can listen in to every personal conversation they have, and not only right now, but retroactively.