Five minutes after encryption was allowed, the SW bands would be saturated in commercial digital services, and would be completely unusable. Just one wide-band

Five minutes after encryption was allowed, the SW bands would be saturated in commercial digital services, and would be completely unusable. Just one wide-band digital service would take up most of the SW spectrum, leaving nothing for ships, aircraft, broadcasting, amateur radio, etc. The one thing which keeps the "multibillion dollar telecoms" out of the SW bands in that encryption is not allowed. And how would your "citizens" even be able to listen to the new digital services if they were encrypted? Whatever, these frequency bands are so narrow that it makes wide-band digital services utterly impractical. Needless to say there are a group of trolls who are constantly pushing this idea on behalf of the greedy commercial players.