In other words, the problem is states. If you irrevocably delegate your decision making to a representative government as is presumed in the idea of the "social contract", that government becomes its own entity as a state and must establish a system of domination against its subjects to maintain itself. Anyone seeking to change or abolish it, whether one of its subjects or as a foreign state, must be seen as hostile and be contained or eliminated. We can discuss whether that is good or bad but it seems contradictory to want a powerful state but not want it to have power.
That kind of encryption can even be done with a pen and paper.
Encryption ban is unenforceable.
You can't ban math.
Google and Microsoft made a solution that scans user files for illegal stuff, but it can be easily defeated by simply uploading a password protected archive.
Newspapers losing control over the narrative over the last 15 years have been "extremely dangerous for our democracy" and it's no surprise politicians are pushing back against Internet in an attempt to regain the control. At the moment it seems impossible to predict what the future will look like, but it doesn't look promising in my view.