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Just wait until they tell us that encryption back doors are necessary to stop racism and watch as half the population claps excitedly for the total elimination

by jrsj 6y ago

Just wait until they tell us that encryption back doors are necessary to stop racism and watch as half the population claps excitedly for the total elimination of privacy in the U.S.

sodality2 6y ago
I don't believe that is true (and pray it isn't). I don't think the populace is that stupid. Also, unnecessarily political. I could replace "racism" with "immigration" or "socialism" just as easily, that doesn't make it true.
- tremon 6y ago
  Why not? "We need lie detectors to stop communism" worked fine before, didn't it?
  - sodality2 6y ago
    I'd like to think that it wouldn't work now, given the interconnectedness of the world today. I also wouldn't be very surprised if it did work, though.
- jrsj 6y ago
  I don’t care if it seems political, it’s reality. This is just the most effective tool the government has for manufacturing consent at the moment. This is the just the thing we’re already clearly willing to give up civil liberties for in another areas, primarily in freedom of speech and basic property rights. Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue. Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment. Support encryption backdoors, we need them to fight White Nationalist Terrorist Insurrectionists! If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it.
  - sodality2 6y ago
    >Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue This is completely false: entire media companies are dedicated to it. >Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment. Again, I could just as easily say >Fear of socialism is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment. That does not make it true. >If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it. That's literally a given. I don't know what you're arguing. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-wrote-patriot-act https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-w...
anm89 6y ago
Did you know that 75% of Neo Nazi's use encryption! \s

by jrsj 6y ago

Just wait until they tell us that encryption back doors are necessary to stop racism and watch as half the population claps excitedly for the total elimination of privacy in the U.S.

sodality2 6y ago

I don't believe that is true (and pray it isn't). I don't think the populace is that stupid. Also, unnecessarily political. I could replace "racism" with "immigration" or "socialism" just as easily, that doesn't make it true.

tremon 6y ago
Why not? "We need lie detectors to stop communism" worked fine before, didn't it?
- sodality2 6y ago
  I'd like to think that it wouldn't work now, given the interconnectedness of the world today. I also wouldn't be very surprised if it did work, though.
jrsj 6y ago
I don’t care if it seems political, it’s reality. This is just the most effective tool the government has for manufacturing consent at the moment. This is the just the thing we’re already clearly willing to give up civil liberties for in another areas, primarily in freedom of speech and basic property rights. Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue. Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment. Support encryption backdoors, we need them to fight White Nationalist Terrorist Insurrectionists! If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it.
- sodality2 6y ago
  >Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue This is completely false: entire media companies are dedicated to it. >Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment. Again, I could just as easily say >Fear of socialism is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment. That does not make it true. >If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it. That's literally a given. I don't know what you're arguing. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-wrote-patriot-act https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4876107/user-clip-joe-biden-w...

anm89 6y ago

Did you know that 75% of Neo Nazi's use encryption! \s