Ask HN: Where should a UK-based company move to if encryption is outlawed?
We're a UK-based PaaS. About 90% of our customers are from outside the UK.
The party most likely to form the government after the upcoming election here is strongly averse to encryption. Although it remains to be seen what, if any, legislation they will actually enact if they get in, we need to do contingency planning. The worst-case scenario (which, to be clear, we think is very unlikely) is that they might pass laws that would mean we would not be able to offer a service with sufficient security for our international customers.
In this - again, we think unlikely - event, we'd either have to close the business, as we can't keep going on our UK revenue only, or we'd have to move to another country.
Our question for HN is: which country would it be best to move to? It would need to be one with no crazy laws around encryption (and no obvious political rumblings that it might move in that direction), and an immigration system that would let us in. Ideally it would also be a nice place to live :-)
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
[edit] By "political rumblings", this is the kind of thing we're worried about, coming from the EU: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/30/ec_push_encryption_backdoors/