[QAPereo]

History would seem to suggest that it will be trivial for people with bad intentions to sway public opinion against encryption as they did in the past against things like cannabis, or the many books which have been banned. All it will take his associating encryption strongly with the despised group and that will be that for decades. I want to believe otherwise but it's happened with issues much simpler and much easier to understand than encrypted data.

[azurelogic]

I don't disagree that they could succeed with this method of attack. The problem is that it doesn't solve any problems. Encryption is a thing that humanity knows about. It's not going away. We're not going to stop knowing how to make guns, knives, drugs, or anything else that has been banned. And encryption just requires some computers. They're ubiquitous now. Encryption is baked into so many things that it would be impossible to stop as a concept.