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So just to be clear, as a platform you would be willing to facilitate those types of communications on the principle of "they could just do it themselves"?
by diveanon 6y ago
So just to be clear, as a platform you would be willing to facilitate those types of communications on the principle of "they could just do it themselves"?
- babesh 6y agoYes of course. It is the principle of privacy. Most of the time, governments have far more power than such groups. This power is ripe for abuse and power like this has been abused in the past in the US. Why would you think that it wouldn’t be abused again? Example, what the FBI did in the 60s including to MLK. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO Illegal surveillance against people deemed subversives. Taped MLK’s affairs. Sent it to his wife and him. Told him to commit suicide. Another example: More recent history as revealed by Edward Snowden shows that the government basically recorded all phone calls and grabbed all Google data on you, etc... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden Who is willing to invest this power in government? Apparently, for some ridiculous reason, you are more afraid of those Capitol Hill nut jobs than the CIA and FBI? You know the CIA that overthrows governments like that of Iran. You know the FBI that spies on sitting Presidents. Compare that to the nut jobs who organized publicly on Facebook and Twitter and decided to take selfie’s and posted to social media? Would you be for or against this if Trump won a second term?