To be clear, I’m opposed to widespread access and would want a warrant at a minimum but honesty compels me to note that there are crimes which would be solved if someone used, say, SMS but not Signal and we should consciously accept that as the cost of not living in a surveillance state rather than pretending it’s not true.
Meanwhile the connected and savvy minority coddle pedophiles and grifters among their lot.
These are not really new concerns or ideas. The context has shifted from “meatspace” to “cyber space”. Generally the old ideas of trust and verify, avoid unenforceable, spurious, overreach still apply.
There’s an interesting parallel to the Pareto principle here, IMO. Society is pushing for more and more policing of the 80%ish and less on the 20%ish.
Wealth inequality, and civil rights inequality, filter into our tech contexts.
Too bad we largely focus on these things in our favored context rather than see it as the general political plight of the masses, as it really should be considered, IMO.