National conservatism: what were they thinking?

The attempt by the UK government to effectively disallow end-to-end encryption in the online safety bill is an illiberal and deeply stupid idea. People who support it are either acting in bad faith or have an education so poor that they don't understand what they are proposing. It is alarming if not surprising that the UK's security services are acting in such bad faith, and that our politicians are both acting in bad faith and have such low educational attainment. Makers of end-to-end encryp...