Agreed, however I have found it is very hard to get through by going the long explanation route of the issue, when I have attempted it has ended up in the regular "nothing to hide, protect children good" handwavy counterpoints.
I think some very simple message is needed to reach people who aren't concerned, or don't understand how dangerous the implications of this is.
I made the mistake of starting to explain what end to end encryption is and why it is important and they quickly lost interest.
What has had me most baffled about all of this is that none of my friends and collegues even know what Chat Control is.
The only national news reporting about it here has been _after_ it has been passed or rejected, and even then it has been skewed with headlines such as "Online pirates cheers as chat control is rejected". And this is from supposedly neutral news outlets. It is like they dont want any attention drawn to this.
I recently watched One Punch man which made me think about heroism, what a hero is and what it means. Saitama, and the top tier famous heroes in the story rarely risks anything. Their immense power just makes their actions an illusion of being heroic, theres rarely anything at stake for them, Saitama especially.
Mumen rider is an example of a true hero to me in that story, his only superpower being that he rides a bicycle, and he stands before certain destruction just to delay the monsters from hurting innocents for a few seconds. Risking everything.
By that definition, most superheroes, like the Avengers just look like power fantasies, does Spider-man or superman ever really risk anything substansial or acts in the face of certain destruction.
I think some very simple message is needed to reach people who aren't concerned, or don't understand how dangerous the implications of this is.
I made the mistake of starting to explain what end to end encryption is and why it is important and they quickly lost interest.