The thing is, how many of those politicians receive throwbacks from industry to support this vs actually care about and believe in these laws?
Addressing rampant corporate government bribery(lobbying) would go a long way to preventing these kind of laws from passing.
On a more immediately achievable and realistic level, I think the idea really needs to drilled down into the general public that encryption is your computer and phone's equivalent of a 'front door lock'. I know this is simplistic and not necessarily 100% accurate, but it might as well be as important as one these days for any personal information and these kinds of simplistic, easily understandable metaphors tend to work a lot better than drilling over the details as to why encryption matters.
Addressing rampant corporate government bribery(lobbying) would go a long way to preventing these kind of laws from passing.
On a more immediately achievable and realistic level, I think the idea really needs to drilled down into the general public that encryption is your computer and phone's equivalent of a 'front door lock'. I know this is simplistic and not necessarily 100% accurate, but it might as well be as important as one these days for any personal information and these kinds of simplistic, easily understandable metaphors tend to work a lot better than drilling over the details as to why encryption matters.