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Did you guys know TERRORISTS are also on TWITTER and FACEBOOK! As soon as I heard this my heart sank and I deleted my accounts. These dangerous tools are being

Did you guys know TERRORISTS are also on TWITTER and FACEBOOK! As soon as I heard this my heart sank and I deleted my accounts. These dangerous tools are being used to recruit jihadists from our own communities!!!!! Can you believe it? I hope they ban this "cryptography" app, as well as Facebook and Twitter. /s How can people be this stupid? Better question: Why are people so uncomfortable deferring their opinions to people who know these things? I don't think you'll find a single person involved in tech who thinks banning cryptography is a good idea, let alone possible. With that in mind, why does this news article exist? How are our politicians getting away with this populist bullshit?

vonklaus 11y ago
> Why are people so uncomfortable deferring their opinions to people who know these things? I think you might find that a non-trivial subset, if not outright majority, do deferring their opinions to people who know these things. They often get information and analysis from the news, their government, and that "one guy who is good at computers". I use pgp and gpg, I use ssh, and I am a programmer. I know very little about how cryptography works, but likely enough to appraise someone else's ability to shepherd such discussion and policy. So what heuristic would you apply here? I love the EFF but they have not succeeded in any mainstream endeavor. I do not mean to belittle their accomplishments, but what percent of people reading this article know what the EFF is?