[renehsz]

> Such laws cannot be enforced.

Tech companies can certainly be forced to build surveillance into their chat applications and operating systems. This doesn't have to be about backdooring crypto.

> Enforcement can only be arbitrary.

Sure, but it would be forced upon the vast majority of the population. Tech-savvy people will find ways to circumvent it, so will criminals, but that doesn't make mass surveillance of all others any less scary.

[jopsen]

The argument was that ChatControl is a threat to the rule of law.

Because enforcement would be so arbitrary.