Freedom of expression not only is the freedom to say what you want. It is the freedom to say these words someone . The result is that strong encryption is not only a strong right in itself, but it is inherent in the freedom of expression, as the normal case for today's discourse to take place over a distance.
In the United States, we are now something like third wave clueless politicians trying to score cheap points by the war on encryption. The first was in the early 190s, when the PGP encryption software to Phil Zimmermann - Pretty Good Privacy - indeed has been classified as military equipment and could not lawfully be communicated outside the United States. This ended with a major legal battle established that code is speech, and therefore freedom of expression includes the free code. (Activists in the courtroom wore T-shirts with the source code.)
Between then and now, there has been a low-intensity war on freedom conducted by various politicians who want to ban encryption. (Are we on the second or third cryptographic wars? Does not really matter, what matters is that the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.) These politicians are generally technically illiterate if they are better described with their control technology proposed as the equivalent of drunken elephants trumpeting about in a glass factory.
freedom of expression has never been freedom of being alone in a padded room and muttering incomprehensibly for you. The concept necessarily involves the communication of a thought to one or more other persons, and thus includes your right to choose these people. It was obvious that we were talking face to face, and freedom of expression has been registered; Now, technology has changed our ability to talk to people from a distance, but not the basic concept. Therefore, strong encryption is now a prerequisite to maintain the concept of freedom of expression.
The problem is that encryption, such as the Internet itself, we see a distinct phenomenon. But it's not. It deeply embedded in the way we exercise our freedoms and protect our freedoms today. It used to be that all freedoms not only could, but in general would be exercised in an analog way.
Today, however, we exercise our fundamental freedoms such as freedom of assembly, speech, opinion, the press, and thought to Internet. And therefore the Internet itself has become just a fundamental right that all other rights we exercise through it .
Therefore, freedom of expression today is not without strong encryption.
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