I am English.

Most likely you meant to reply to somebody else, but it’s possible you picked up and ran with a response to my question. If that’s the case then thanks for the effort!

What does this mean? People putting on a ‘work voice’ or something?

You have no idea whether the people pushing for encryption backdoors are corrupt or not.

Seeking to spy on everybody’s private communications could be described as corrupt by default. It could also be called a whole host of things including creepy, fascist, totalitarian.