I am not opposed to encryption in itself. Quite the opposite.

But Mozilla and Google and others are using encryption as a cudgel to force people into services they don’t and can’t control. This isn’t a side effect. This is the intended result.

Expect to see more of this bamboozlement sold as “security” when in reality it’s much less secure from a number of important threats — including from the companies themselves who now control all of your data.

True security would be empowering people to have control of and say over their own data, all the time. What these large companies are doing is just using a nimiety of pseudo-security to make it too difficult for even someone technically-competent to be able to provision and operate their own services without lots of time invested and unnecessary work.

For the same reason in other spaces, it’s why large companies actually like regulation — it eliminates competitors in their arena who do not have the resource base they do to comply with them.