It's more like saying if you draw a picture of a car going 80mph, that's just a drawing.
Doing physics or chemistry can directly harm people. Doing math or drawing pictures can't.
Doing physics or chemistry can directly harm people. Doing math or drawing pictures can't.
Like the article said analogies are no fun. I agree with your premise but not with your conclusion.
You will perhaps agree that encryption has the potential to directly harm people just as physics or chemistry?
This argument might have worked, up until the point when they criminalized cartoon child pornography.
You will perhaps agree that encryption has the potential to directly harm people just as physics or chemistry?
No.
I would not agree. Encryption can only indirectly harm people, in the same vein as speech.
Obviously there is much more to conspiracy than "talking about a murder," or Stephen King would be locked up in Supermax. It's as if Comey is asking for the right to review every murder mystery or horror novel before it hits the shelves. If he wants his job to be that easy, he should send his resume to North Korea.