They don&#x27;t have to regulate speech. They can do this purely by regulating commerce, by making it unlawful for Apple or Google to license or sell software or computing devices that don&#x27;t provide escrow.<p>The USG doesn&#x27;t want to eliminate strong crypto. It wants to make it <i>not the default</i>. Notice how the huge &quot;going dark&quot; freakout happened with Apple encrypted phones and messages by default.