Child pornographers everyday use encrypted messaging and Tor to get away with their crimes. Meanwhile, normal users have no practical benefit from either.
Why is this different?
Why is this different?
One part of it is:
As both a matter of norms and law, we expect and desire more public scrutiny of financial transactions than of speech. In particular, various taxes mean that a large fraction of financial transactions cannot and should not be private. Conversely the great majority of 1 on 1 conversations raise no legal or regulatory issues.