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"Won't somebody please think of the children"-style legislation over public safety online is always used as a trojan horse for surveillance and censorship. This
by abvdasker 4y ago
"Won't somebody please think of the children"-style legislation over public safety online is always used as a trojan horse for surveillance and censorship. This has been done so many times at this point that I just default to assuming these measures are created for sinister reasons. I haven't been wrong once yet.
- alwayslikethis 4y agoAttacking encryption has always been done in the name of safety, whether from "criminals" or for national security. There are no legitimate reasons why a free people should have their right to encrypted communications taken away. Therefore, when you try to introduce such legislations without such a pretext, people don't like it. They have to create a moral panic (lately usually terrorists or pedophiles) in order to get such legislation to pass.