Doesn't everyone want to catch guys like this [1]? If not, you're a bad guy and we can discount any argument you put forth am I right? Am I right? High five?

Doesn't everyone want to catch guys like this [1]? If not, you're a bad guy and we can discount any argument you put forth am I right? Am I right? High five? Anyone? Anyone? Point being that the enemies privacy have been waging an extremely successful propaganda war against our position for longer than most privacy advocates have been alive. A campaign that is at once massive and specially calibrated to go unnoticed. (How many connect the 'Telescreen' to the example in [1] in their minds?) They have the power to ensure that hand picked, specific examples, calibrated to inflame, are used as flag bearers in the zeitgeist. They have a long game of very specific goals, coupled with an army of natural language, behavioral psychology, and media experts all dedicated to that singular purpose. They have decades of experience at manipulating populations at scale, and a track record replete with successes. Meanwhile, we sit on HN and social media talking to each other about how our side will be proven right in the end. You know, 'cuz "freedoms". We have to start addressing the legitimate points that government and law enforcement types are making, because not doing so cedes more and more ground in public behavior and public opinion to those enemies of privacy. The great irony here is that we ourselves have helped them manage to cast themselves in the public eye as the "champions of safety", due largely to the poorly chosen nature of our bedfellows. We need to start getting out in front of a lot of the legitimate arguments that law enforcement is making, and we need to push back against professionally subtle narratives in the national media that attempt to attach us to yet more unsavory bedfellows. ---- [1] - https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/woman-assaulted-boyfriend-doorbell-camera/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/us/woman-assaulted-boyfriend-...