This article on HN today https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/ https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/ "Politicians regularly claim

This article on HN today https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/ https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/wer-wird-belauscht/ "Politicians regularly claim that they need to ban encryption to protect the children. But who is actually being monitored?" Apparently by orders of magnitude over any child related issue, it's drugs. That seems to imply that it is a "moral panic". If they said they were doing for drugs, or drugs + other stuff then that might be more convincing. Moreover if the article is to be believed - such mechanisms are used at hugely higher rates for things they are not pitched as being for. So that breaks the narrative of 'we'll only use it for X'.