> Note: "privacy" is not a car that can be stolen once. I'm not talking about "all of privacy" being lost in one go, I had assumed this would be obvious to all

> Note: "privacy" is not a car that can be stolen once. I'm not talking about "all of privacy" being lost in one go, I had assumed this would be obvious to all readers. I'm talking about the specific matter at hand; Message scanning, with the point of how this failure mode poses a threat for further and further infringements of privacy down the line. > If privacy dies, it ends creativity, civil society and funding for politicians. Cute poetry, but the aftermath of 9/11 clearly shows otherwise. Consider for a moment how even these "anti-terrorism" measures are seeing shockingly little pushback. Despite al-Qaeda being an ocean and continent away. You're a fool if you think any politician would risk their career to revoke message scanning once implemented. The attack-ads write themselves, "[POLITICIAN] wants to let pedophiles sextort your children".