Comment by rangestransform

> Privacy is absolutely necessary for the continuation of western liberal society as we know it

IMO, so is the fight against active hostile foreign or local actors bot flaming on the internet to stoke tensions. These kinds of acts aren't only online (cf. Russia paying Moldovans and Serbs to commit anti-semitic and anti-muslim acts in France to stoke tensions between Jews, Muslims and everyone else), but they are drastically more effective online with the help of social media algorithms. To preserve healthy democracies, something has to be done.

> and for society’s constant fight against authoritarianism

And it pipes into this one. The people profiting the most from those tensions, which they stoke too, are wannabe authoritarians (cf. Trump).

How to fight against them and their tactics without giving them the tools they will abuse once they're into power to shut down dissent?