It's definitely not irrelevant. My first search time covid related because I knew the non-official, random person on the internet blog wouldn't have the money to create flashy sites.

I would obviously apply a more progressive label to you. UBI, not anti-abortion, celebrating diversity, citizenship approval, MSM being dodgy.

I mean, it's kinda well known that war is the mother of all innovation right?

That explains it right there if you take the theory as true. WW2, Cold War. I mean even the moon landing was part of that cold war era technology advancement.

So now instead of governments/military pushing for needs, it's now companies trying to innovate for money. Which can work, but you need CEOs to take risks like Musk or even Jobs.

But they already do that with warrants. As long as they have a warrant and aren't breaking encryption by putting in backdoors, they should have the ability to listen in on conversations.

That's how it is now without encryption.

Yes, without encryption, they have that possibility, after they prove probable cause. Without getting into a debate whether that is appropriate, it is important to keep in mind that it is the citizen's right to privacy of conversations is the more fundamental here. The government does not have a right to snoop on everyone's conversations, they simply have this possibility in certain situations.

So, for me, this changes nothing.

But they're not banning random unknown sciences. They're banning conspiracies like tracking chips in vaccines or that the vaccine will kill people.

That's not untested science like masks.