It could be that I&#x27;m missing something totally obvious here but ...<p>Apart from the obvious reasons of why it&#x27;s a bad idea to add backdoors or outlaw encryption the discussion somehow never addresses the obvious result of what were to happen if the US were to regulate &#x2F; outlaw encryption: namely it would be devastating to any US tech companies who generate a large part of their income outside the US.<p>Would you still trust gmail&#x2F;amazon or even US based ERP that is backdoored if you&#x27;re a Asian or EU based company? Why is this not discussed I wonder.