What a welcome shift in public sentiment. Mainstream media is starting to recommend end-to-end encryption, without back doors, for everybody. (Though the New York Times might represent the leading edge of the change in popular opinion.)
You tend to see that sort of change every eight years or so. The fake liberals come back around to pretending to support all civil liberties again.
Ashcroft does X, it's evil and given intense scrutiny. Holder does X, it's mostly given a pass by the msm.
Bush does X, it's evil. Obama does X (eg regime change in Syria; what, no million person protests?), it's mostly given a pass by the msm.
That's how the media has functioned for decades. They'll get extremely loud during Trump's Presidency about domestic spying abuses, after eight years of giving the Obama Admin a sizable pass. The same will hold true about the egregious abuses directed at the press under Obama, when Trump does the same thing it'll be the end of the world.
