Comment by highcountess

All the encryption stuff is just a red herring to a larger degree. It’s not the technical access to the information that is the issue, it is that people can share and exchange information that the various regimes do not want shared that is the primary issue. They want censorship, i.e., control of thought and speech, arresting the information flow.

They know what is being said and that’s what they want to arrest, that information can be sent and received. And by “they” I mean more than just the French. That was just coincidental and pragmatic.

The French state does not operate that quickly on its own, to get an arrest warrant five minutes after he landed and execute on it immediately. That has other fingerprints all over it in my view.