By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/04/2026Cryptographers had been arguing with the US government over the ban on working encryption technology for years before Cohn joined the fight. 6/ 110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/04/2026They'd tried all manner of arguments to overturn the ban: technical arguments, political arguments, financial arguments. All of these efforts failed - they didn't even make a dent. 7/ 120
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/04/2026Cohn's genius was the way she formulated a free speech argument about the ban on encryption: arguing that computer code was a form of expressive speech, entitled to protection under the First Amendment. 8/ 130
