> What is the DOJ going to say when China, Russia, and every other country wants access to phones

I suspect that the people that are in support of this are perfectly fine with every government being authoritarian and surveilling everything within its own borders. (Of course, they want their own covert operations to be immune to that, but they aren't concerned with following local law, anyway, so that's not an issue.)

Their argument is that because tech companies are already listening to censorship requests from these sorts of countries, they should listen to technical requests from the US government. We've lost American exceptionalism in the worst possible way: "If you'll listen to all these other oppressive governments, you should listen to us too."

"Companies are willing to make accommodations when required by the government. Recent media reports suggest that a major American technology company developed a tool to suppress online posts in certain geographic areas in order to embrace a foreign government’s censorship policies. Another major American tech company recently acquiesced to a foreign partner’s request that local customers stop using software to circumvent a foreign government’s censorship restrictions. A third major American corporation recently stopped supporting virtual private network apps at the behest of a foreign government, to prevent internet users from overcoming censorship policies."