[captain_coffee]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how tech-savvy people will go out of their way to make sure they communicate with as many people as possible exclusively using End-to-End-Encrypted services exclusively. (that do not scan your messages even locally / on device before sending / after receiving them)

In the UK a massive surge in using VPNs happened in the last 2 weeks and the adoption only keeps rising.

Call me Nostradamus but if this legislation gets passed I can see how a lot of people will become familiar with the Privacy and Security aspects of the tech world (comms in particular).

[p0w3n3d]

The problem is it will be to late. We must not allow politicians pass laws that will be irrevocable and later find our workarounds, because (1) of complications (making our lives hell) and (2) allowing politicians to go further, e.g. forbid us from using phones where you can install arbitrary software, or another example - putting people to jail for encrypting their messages