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The European Parliament has correctly identified their great enemy: The ability of the grass roots to whisper in each others' ears privately, cheaply and at sca
by hirundo 5y ago
The European Parliament has correctly identified their great enemy: The ability of the grass roots to whisper in each others' ears privately, cheaply and at scale. Free speech, privacy and free association is indeed a threat -- or at least a speed bump -- on the path to the dominance of central authority. The justification will evolve. Terrorism, anti-vaxxers, child abuse, fascism, the outrage of the moment. What doesn't change is the consistent pressure to suppress private communication and coordination, in service to the leviathan.
- playguardin 5y agoI like this take.
- mrjin 5y agoBureaucrats only care whether they can get the info they need, they don't really care how they get it whether it's ethic or even lawful and thus they will do what ever they can to extract the data they want including forcing corporates to hand out their customer's data, snooping all the internet/telecom traffic, deliberately plant weaknesses/backdoors to encryption algorithms etc. Following that line, lobbying for prohibiting encryption is definitely the next step or I should rather say has already going on for a while. Such move will leave normal citizens vulnerable but does not mean much to criminals /terrorist as they will always find the crypto provider they need anyway.