It's a politico-technological arms race. Governments make laws. People make technology that nullifies those laws. The government reacts and makes laws that circumvent the technology. People make even more technology to deal with the new laws. This can end in one of two ways:

1. Subversive technology becomes so ubiquitous and easy to use it's impossible to fight it. The government stops trying.

2. The government's control increases to the point of tyranny and people are no longer free.

I want the government to give up. Anything else will mean the destruction of the free internet and free computing we all enjoy today. I don't want a future where encryption is military use only because of laws that make it impossible to run code not signed by the government.

> But I'd at least like to see builders grappling with that balance.

There is no balance to be had. The internet contains the full spectrum of humanity. The very best and the very worst of humanity are both be found on the internet. The governments were oblivious for a while but now they want to narrow down the spectrum. As they impose laws and exercise control, the internet becomes safer but it also becomes less international and more regional. The flow of information is no longer free and unrestricted. The spectrum is narrowed down from both sides.

Sadly it will only get worse from here. I am happy to have enjoyed the internet while it was in its infancy, and I am sad that future generations will probably never experience it.

> Especially given recent prominent reporting around this:

Every article about encryption regulation is like this. Pedophiles and terrorists. Children in particular are the perfect political weapon. The exploitation of children provokes reactions in people that are so visceral they are ready to accept any law that would supposedly make it stop. Anything can be justified with these arguments and anyone who disagrees is labeled a pedophile apologist and instantly shunned.