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by denton-scratch 1085 days ago
> The government disagrees and says the bill “does not represent a ban on end-to-end encryption, nor will it require services to weaken encryption.”

The bill mandates an end-run around E2E encryption. Government spokespeople are deeply disingenuous about this; the two ends are me and you, metaphorically; two users. If there's anything in the channel before the content is encrypted or after it's decrypted, then it isn't end-to-end any more.