Forgive me if this is an obvious stupid question, but with all this talk (again) about the EU trying to force chat platforms to check the content of its messages, I can help but think: how are they ever going to prevent me and my friend from sharing public keys and using them to encrypt our messages to each other? In other words: how are they ever going to be able to ban encryption?
They probably won’t bother actually enforcing a ban against you and a buddy using PGP by hand. What they don’t want is normies encrypting everything so they lose the ability to casually spy on the masses. At the point at which they care enough about you personally to notice you’re using PGP, you’ve already “committed suicide.”