Advanced technology was once held mainly in the hands of governments. In recent years, corps and mega-corps are getting far more advanced technology than the government has. For governments, this means loss of power. So governments around the world use whatever means they have to prevent such technologies to prolifirate. US govm't tried to stop the export of strong encryption. The it shutdown Facebooks crypto-currency - to prevent FB to have its own global-dollar. That's why the US just waited for the right time to end the party where dollars could buy you cyber abilities only reserved to the NSA and CIA.

It's not about civil rights, it's ont about money laundring, its just about the US trying to keep ahead of everyone else.