To expound on that distinction, I think it is easy for people to imagine a scary armed criminal, perhaps breaking into their house, and imagine being able to st

To expound on that distinction, I think it is easy for people to imagine a scary armed criminal, perhaps breaking into their house, and imagine being able to stop them by brandishing or shooting a gun at them. It is comparatively harder for people to build a mental model of how encryption stops an unseen hacker accessing their data, and obviously most people value their life more than their data. The difference in threat models applicable to end-to-end encryption versus hop-by-hop encryption is even more subtle, allowing disingenuous politicians to claim to support encryption while simultaneously weakening it.