I say stupidity should be punished the same way as incompetence. Exactly to stop malicious people from faking incompetence to avoid punishment.

And yes, this is an attack on basic human freedoms and should be punished, not just prevented.

This is an interesting comment, because you are making exactly the same mistake as those politicians:

- They think it's easy to just ask engineers to magically make safe backdoors.

- You think it's always easy to know what is right and what is wrong. "We should just punish those who harm society". Sure, we should! And we should have safe backdoors!