The post you responded to already addressed that exact point. >And yes, it's true that the governments could always mandate such scanning before. The differenc

The post you responded to already addressed that exact point. >And yes, it's true that the governments could always mandate such scanning before. The difference is that it'll be much harder politically for Apple to push back against tweaks to the scheme (such as lowering the bar for manual review / notification of authorities) if they already have it rolled out successfully and publicly argued that it's acceptable in principle, as opposed to pushing back against any kind of scanning at all. >Once you establish that something is okay in principle, the specifics can be haggled over. I mean, just imagine this conversation in a Congressional hearing: