Comment by botanical76
1 day ago
How do we actually beat this narrative? I've been proposing a E2EE-based chat application to my friend, and they asked me a similar question: won't it just be rife with pedophiles? How can you make a platform that will be used to that means?
I have strong views about privacy as a fundamental human right, but I don't know how to answer that question. I certainly don't want to make the world worse, but this feels like a lesser of two evils type of deal: either make it even harder to catch bad actors, such as child abusers, or make it plausible that your government take away your freedom forever.
I suppose it is conflating lack of trust in government / law enforcement with criminal matters.
Don’t give power over yourself to people with a proven history of misusing it, according to your values. You don’t have to look hard for examples.