I wonder where does this end? I do feel like nearly once a year some country in western world tries to ban encryption. Can we just make it a right to encrypt communications and be done with this endless debate?
There should be things the state simply cannot touch not just things which it should not touch.
Just to be clear I’m all for encryption and our right to do so, but I feel that equating this to our defence for math is a couple bridges too far?
Why?
What if society could be destroyed by performing math? Should it still be a fundamental right? What if the entire universe could be destroyed by doing math?
This reminds me of a couple episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. In one ("Need to Know"), there's some secret; when person A tells person B the secret, person B goes insane (and then tries to tell others the secret). Should a verbally-communicated secret be illegal? In the other, a disgruntled college student figures out how to build a small fusion bomb, and uses it for terrorism and threatens to detonate much larger versions of the bomb. At the end, he's killed and takes his secret with him, but the implication is that the principles aren't really that difficult, and sooner or later some other angry person will figure out how to make such bombs and humanity will be doomed.
they've become the biggest laughing stock in multiple other avenues anyways, you need an example for people to learn from
one look at san fransisco and people start funding their police departments again
if you want to “be done with the endless debate” then perhaps use (and contribute to) protocols/infrastructure which aren’t so easily governed.