What's different this time around is that there are multiple democratic governments pushing to block end-to-end encryption technologies, and specifically to insert AI models that will read private messages. Initially these will only be designed to search for heinous content, but the precedent is pretty worrying.
That's been the case for a long while. It's getting worse fast!
Btw you say that about their initial design but I think you mean that may be the budget allocation justification without actually being a meaningful functional requirement during the design phase
