As soon as people started moving onto Signal in large numbers following the nonsense in D.C. it was

As soon as people started moving onto Signal in large numbers following the nonsense in D.C. it was pretty obvious where was going to go. On Jan. 14, I tweeted this question: "Seriously how long until folks start to be viewed as suspect by the discourse because they believe in strong encryption?"

Eleven days later! Casey Newton puts up a post about how it's a problem that an app that's end-to-end encrypted and whose creators can't see much of anything about how users use it might be open to "abuse." That is: people they don't agree with.

Not hard to see where this is going. I mean there's like basically a playbook at this point.