I'm sorry I didn't make this clear enough. I don't want this to happen, I'm just speculation that it could have side effects that are helpful to parts of the community that would like to see less reliance on centralized systems. I'm not saying that is worth the tradeoff, because I don't think it is. Just interesting.
Regarding the point that this could/would lead to an attack on general encryption, IMO I think they are doing this more because they are beginning to understand that they can't attack general purpose encryption head on. It is needed in to many places to make it illegal. So they are attacking it from the sides, through corporate interests.
Regarding the point that this could/would lead to an attack on general encryption, IMO I think they are doing this more because they are beginning to understand that they can't attack general purpose encryption head on. It is needed in to many places to make it illegal. So they are attacking it from the sides, through corporate interests.