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And private semi-monopolies such as AT&T would never cooperate with government wiretapping,
Of course they do - and they can get my SSL traffic, which they may or may not be able to unravel.
What will happen after regulation, is that AT&T will no longer need to cooperate as such because cooperation will be mandated and technically inserted into telco equipment. Then later on all consumer encryption must use the ClipperChipMarkVIIX, which lets government agencies with any possible interest in you decrypt anything you've ever sent (thanks to the mandated infinite logging of traffic).
If you don't think any of that is possible, much less likely, you don't know technology or governments.