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Comment by pembrook

4 hours ago

OP writes a thoughtful, evidence-based comment.

The mob responds with a 1-sentence emotional meme. Classic moral panic 101.

It's impossible to fight feelings with logic unfortunately, which is why many western countries are going to fall into this trap and ultimately kill the idea of digital privacy and the open web forever.

This particular moral panic is reaching peak trendiness, and the baptists and the bootleggers are out in full force. Both parties are begging for hamfisted over-reaction from government (the bootleggers and politicians for more nefarious reasons of course).

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toofy  3 hours ago

> The mob responds with a 1-sentence emotional meme. Classic moral panic 101.

it was one person.

im writing this comment 1 hour after yours, and still only a single person has responded and you’ve called one person, a mob. you’ve declared one person commenting to be a “moral panic.”