If a country like the UK decided to ban end-to-end encryption, how would they even enforce it? I understand that they could demand big companies like Apple stop providing such services to their customers and withdraw certain apps from the UK App Store. But what’s stopping someone from simply going online and downloading an app like Session? I mean, piracy is banned too, yet you can still download a torrent client and start pirating. What would a ban like this actually prohibit in the end?
It wouldn’t.
USA tried to keep the encryption all to itself in the past by classifying it as munitions, it didn’t work out.
And criminals don’t care if encryption is banned anyway.
Relevant xkcd
No-one thinks that the US citizens will actually use the second amendment for the allowed purpose. It’s kind of laughable that people think that they will. It’s used for your kids to shoot their fellow students.
Wasn’t there an official building invasion recently? Turns out they forgot all about it at the time.