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I would not be so sure of that. I really believe the President's guiding principle is to do whatever it is that will enrage liberals the most. If Republicans se
by jliptzin 10y ago
I would not be so sure of that. I really believe the President's guiding principle is to do whatever it is that will enrage liberals the most. If Republicans see that liberals want strong encryption, they might decide to oppose it just to piss off liberals. It's amazing to me that a lot of the same people advocating gun rights are also the ones that support government mandated encryption backdoors.
- PKop 10y agoEh.. it's messy isn't it. Politically motivated libertarians strongly support both 2nd amendment and oppose back doors. Generally speaking, the govt is always seen as the biggest threat to guard against. Probabaly the ones supportive of backdoors are as you said, simply "trusting" of the current leader they voted for but would immediately oppose the same policy coming from a Democrat. ...which is the exact impulse and logic that should push all partisans to distrust government power to snoop on communications. There will always be someone in charge somewhere that you don't trust.
- NoGravitas 10y agoAs a libertarian socialist, I continually struggle to get US progressives to understand this argument.
- greggyb 10y agoThose who fought against having strong encryption classified as a munition for purposes of export were on the wrong side of the issue. They didn't realize that one day they would need the second amendment to protect their right to such "weapons". -- this post is a poor paraphrase of a comic I saw once. Edit: turns out it's a relevant xkcd™ https://m.xkcd.com/504/ https://m.xkcd.com/504/
- mirimir 10y agoSure, but civilians can't own nukes, for example.