Our own governments are pushing for it, simple as that. I live in Spain, and both left and right parties, and to a lesser degree their voters, are increasingly

Our own governments are pushing for it, simple as that. I live in Spain, and both left and right parties, and to a lesser degree their voters, are increasingly leaning authoritarian and tacitly agree to extend surveillance; the police and specially the gendarmerie lobby for it as well. So our parties are drooling at the idea of extending surveillance by EU directive so they can point fingers at the EU instead of risking losing votes. It's no surprise to me, then, that in the document leaked to Wired in 2023[1], our country's position was the most extreme: > In our view, it would be desirable to legislatively prevent EU-based service providers from implementing end-to-end encryption. There may have been external lobbying, but it wasn't necessary. [1]: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/26/leaked-document-shows-spain-is-fully-on-board-with-the-eu-commissions-plan-to-criminalize-encryption/ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/26/leaked-document-shows-sp...