The main point for me is to have a government I don't need to protect myself from. And more generally, a society where I don't need to disguise my every action.

The main point for me is to have a government I don't need to protect myself from. And more generally, a society where I don't need to disguise my every action. Points about the impracticality of strong encryption are secondary. Here are some of them anyway: * The vast majority of internet users don't have the domain knowledge needed to use strong encryption effectively. A classic example with e-mail is using a prominent phrase from the plain text of the message body in the (unencrypted) subject field. * Any cryptography scheme is vulnerable to social engineering, attacks on the trust networks used to exchange keys, etc. Avoiding these requires a nontrivial and ongoing amount of effort even for expert users. * Encryption complicates archival and search of content even for its author. * Any service that would help users with the above would be legally obligated to provide information to authorities anyway.