“If fundamental freedoms, including the right to communicate privately and to speak anonymously, are not absolutely protected by those who claim are fighting the criminals willing to destroy our societies, then we will for sure get the worse of both worlds: fear and authoritarian control.
As citizens, we must collectively resist this instrumentalisation of terror by those who want to attack our freedoms and control populations with the illusion that it will maintain them in power. To this end, we must invest energy in spreading, developing and improving technologies based on free software, decentralized communications and end-to-end encryption. Meanwhile, we must build a political momentum for an in-depth assessments of ongoing surveillance practices and regain control over intelligence institutions where they have gotten out of hand, and enact policies that will strongly and durably protect our freedoms online and offline.”
https://www.laquadrature.net/en/instrumentalizing-fear-to-control-encrypted-communications-is-dangerously-anti-democratic
see also: https://medium.com/@MattDehart/missives-from-a-supermax-86e86cf57c78