content: Dude you can't compare an Atomic Bomb with an Encryption Device! A knife can be used by ISIS to cut people's head off, so should it be banned?  Privacy is the key element of democratic society. With a big brother watching everyone that is not an actual democracy. Why do you think the 3 letter organisation hacked into foreign corporations to monitor business deals? or the head of the states of friendly nations?  The government is using the fear of terrorism and doing something that a democratic government should never do.  Actually the guys who want to do something fishy and keep themselves hidden don't need these devices. As for example FBI only caught the Silk Road creator only because of his own negligence. Do you think the "Bad Guys" will use gmail or facebook to communicate instead of Dark Net to risk their plans to attacking America?  What the government is doing and what we are letting them to do is something that most of our generation will never understand. The next generation will face the consequence and ask us why did we destroy the democratic balance.  Edit- Please don't downvote him/her because you disagree. Every democratic discussion should and must have an opposing logical argument. He is trying to express his own view and asking for criticism which should be appreciated. His argument contributes to the discussion, so my point of view is you should engage in this argument without downvoting. That's the entire point of Voat's downvote limitation. That makes us different from the other place. Suppresing opposition is a totalitarian way not a democratic one.