But this law is for the protection of children. It was inevitable, in my opinion as a somewhat informed layman, that it would come to this. It was either going to be about protecting children or something to do with terrorism.

Many FOSS users will find it easy to adapt. We have some choices, and a few countries are trying to block it. Here in France, people buy and sell drugs on Twitter and Instagram thinking they're being sneaky with their codewords like "broccoli" and "chocolate" so they won't notice a difference. They think Snapchat is private cause the messages disappear.

We just want our data stored here.