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>Do you have a guess about who is behind that lasting global push against private communications? Every single government ever?
by nix23 4y ago
>Do you have a guess about who is behind that lasting global push against private communications?
Every single government ever?
- stjohnswarts 4y agoThis is the correct answer. People are lazy; politicians, police, your mail person, YOU. It's much easier to put on some coffee and start going through CSAM alerts from the emails and texts you AI sent you overnight and see what looks promising. Sure glad we got past those silly 4th amendment weirdos (or whatever the equivalent in your country is) who think privacy is less important than making my job easier. A decade down the line, a popular right/left wing nationalist with authoritarian tendencies wins. Now he sends down a request to comb through his opponent's messages to see what he can send him (or his relatives) to prison for daring to run against Him. A cop caught you flirting with his gf, let's just see what we can dig up on him on the CriminalSearch app...