If a country like the UK decided to ban end-to-end encryption, how would they even enforce it? I understand that they could demand big companies like Apple stop providing such services to their customers and withdraw certain apps from the UK App Store. But what’s stopping someone from simply going online and downloading an app like Session? I mean, piracy is banned too, yet you can still download a torrent client and start pirating. What would a ban like this actually prohibit in the end?
Maybe not entirely, governments probably aren’t thrilled that something that was once an obstacle to authorities when dealing with a small group of dedicated individuals now extends to huge portions of the population for any and every investigation where their communications might have helped authorities build their case so you can see why they might try and remove that obstacle for themselves.