Comment by Terr_

It's very hard to fight a big nefarious system. Especially with the democratic backsliding of the last few months in the US, it's starting to seem like a better bang-for-your-buck is to ensure the system shares your values, i.e. politics.

That's not to say technical approaches don't remain important, but even most encryption is still based on the idea that someone can't just cut off your fingers until you reveal something that satisfies them.