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The children argument is an emotional argument, not a technology one. For thousands of years people watched over their children, now they want to outsource this
by buboard 7y ago
The children argument is an emotional argument, not a technology one. For thousands of years people watched over their children, now they want to outsource this to the govt because they are too busy. The EFF could only respond with an emotional counterargument, about how self-censorship stunts children's mental development or sth.
- bayesian_horse 7y agoThat argument seems to stem from a profound lack of understanding about how child abuse, trafficking and pornography works. These children don't have relatives who can or want to protect them, and that's the whole deal. Either the government enforces their rights, or they don't have any. This is really not a hill limited-government activists should try to defend....
- buboard 7y agoSure, we aren't reverting to small scale communities. The police can go after predators in many ways, and asking to technically remove privacy from society should not be one of them. It's the lazy way and the police is addicted to it. We need the police to do better, and we also need absolute, unbreakable privacy, just like we can have in the physical world.