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The main issues with this are:

1. It would be abused to hell and back - have you ever seen how people act with power?

2. Wrongdoers will still use covert tools. Cryptography has many forms, one of them is steganography - hiding information in plain sight.

So, what you end up with by enabling this is a totalitarian state, where the most vulnerable are hurt the most. Which is basically what we originally wanted to get away from.




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