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Comment by p1esk

7 hours ago

Privacy itself can become illegal just as easily as religion, etc. if we follow your argument.

What point do you think you're making?

  • My interpretation: advocating for privacy without making effort to avoid a large part of the society goes "crazy" will not protect you much on the long term.

    I do like "engineering solutions" (ex: not storing too much data), but I start to think it is important to make more effort on more broad social, legal and political aspects.

EU is literally debating about "Chat Control". Its purpose is to scan for child sexual abuse material in internet traffic. But its at the cost of breaking end to end encryption.

  • I wouldn't be surprised that Trump goes one step further. He is so unleashed, and irrational. This guy is a liability for humanity

  • > Its purpose is to scan

    That's its ostensible, purported, show purpose.

    The real purpose is to break end to end encryption to increase government surveillance and power. "But think of the children" or "be afraid of the terrorists" are just the excuses those in power rotate through to to achieve their true desired ends.