It is amazing to me that people that are supposedly "pro-business" and "pro-market" are against encryption.
Mostly encryption protects privacy and business information. Corporate espionage is bigger than state espionage or terrorism my many multiples, and directly threatens national security as well as markets.
Encryption is pro-business and pro-privacy for business and individuals. Without encryption or with backdoors you are trusting that bad actors don't get access to it, they will.
Why have a world class security system, yet plenty of keys under rocks in the backyard?
I wish encryption was framed like this:
Going without encryption or including backdoors is another level of trust, like leaving your window open on vacation and putting a note that says, "Only Sally the neighbor can come in through the window, please" (Sally being the gov't). Guess what, Sally won't be the only one coming in. In that situation you may as well open the front door because that is the same as the backdoor or window, just less obscurity but more attractive to underground/opposition forces whether that is state, corporate, personal or more.
Oversight and security has gotten lazy, two decades of surveillance based detective work without warrants over real detective work with warrants has made enforcement and security lazy and unable to operate without all the noise that comes with access to everyone's data. Initially it was about terrorism, but everyone knows it is about business information, personal information and other over steps like the drug wars or fights against sex workers or other wars on people that are low hanging fruit that are picked on constantly. Good detective and intel work needs to come back and less of the surveillance type.