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I am pretty sure, churches were "tolerated spaces" bevor e2ee was a thing.
You don't even have to go so far.
Several European countries consider physical letters to be confidential.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence
Strangely enough that confidentiality suddenly no longer applies to other, "newer" forms of communication.
Probably because it's less easy for security services to ignore.
Our societies have previously tolerated a whole lot of spaces where conversations could be had without fear of law enforcement listening in, but many of those have disappeared as communications moved online. Encryption is the only thing that can restore the balance.
Yeah it’s called a private residence and I’m concerned cops don’t see it as a “them free space”
And letters. If you go to the stasi museum in Berlin they have the letter opening equipment as proof of how despicable they were.
The West did (and still does) spy on people to a similar extent, they just have been less obnoxious about it (wholesale spying, but no wholesale persecution) so nobody gets too upset and makes a revolution or something.
God works in encrypted ways