> the author states that it's a moral duty of everyone to start encrypting their communications as a form of civil disobedience. It works when many (preferably most) people disobey.

I'd certainly support it. What he's calling for - it's similar to the dominant spirit in the US after the Edward Snowden revelations. It resulted in a lot of ethical and beneficial stuff happening in a relatively short amount of time.

Not just in tech, even news orgs lost much of their aversion to covering surveillance abuses. At least for a time.