I don&#x27;t think the battle here is about privacy, encryption, or any of that stuff.<p>It&#x27;s really about trust in government.<p>It&#x27;s about the specific meaning of the word &#x27;trust&#x27; - the idea that &#x27;trust&#x27; and &#x27;distrust&#x27; are not equivalent to &#x27;good&#x27; or &#x27;bad&#x27;.<p>I can distrust my government, without thinking that they are bad.<p>When speaking to friends and family about this, that feels like the barrier. They believe that current western governments are generally &#x27;good&#x27;, and that historical ones were &#x27;bad&#x27;, accidents of some sort, that can&#x27;t or won&#x27;t happen again.<p>That troubles me, more so than any specific issue of the day.