The Campaign Against Privacy:
Propaganda's Role in Government and Corporate Circumvention of Encryption and Anonymity

It's not my responsibility to read within the word limit: it's your responsibility to write within it. The revised draft has to be under 1,001 words or else.

The best way to make the essay more terse, in my view, is to make the windup shorter and the follow-through longer. Yes, there's an effort to shape public opinion against encryption as the tool of criminals and terrorists. That's been there since the first round of the crypto wars. You don't need hundreds of words to establish that point. Nor can you get away with one paragraph of "moving forward" based on the "public must demand" strategy for rhetorical seeming efficiency in face of nothing to recommend. You need something to recommend, and one would have though that this would be on the level of "more speech," that is, communicative strategies for countering the propaganda. The evolution, or at least the hypothesis, of such strategies is what would make a fine essay.