It's like staying so are you banning freight and air travel too to those politicians in order to stop cocaine. When do programmers get it that those analogies don't mean anything in real world.
Except it's not cocaine. It's banning bikes, when everyone uses bikes, no? VPNs and SSL explicitly are the target, in part. It's not a figure of speech, it's factually the thing. If your point is politicians don't get that then... fuck idk, I'm hoping for maliciousness over that level of incompetence.
Freight and air travel don’t involve cocaine as a standard. VPN and SSL do include encryption as standard.
It’s not an analogy, it’s pointing out that encryption is more common than some think.