One of these days, you guys are going to figure out how to make this argument without resorting to "In the grim darkness of the far future, blackmail will total

One of these days, you guys are going to figure out how to make this argument without resorting to "In the grim darkness of the far future, blackmail will totally happen. This will be incredibly new and no one will have figured out it happens until it's too late!" Blackmail has been happening regularly for the past four thousand years, ever since we noticed that politics is a thing. These "nightmare scenarios" are like Socrates talking about how people won't understand each other anymore because everything's being written down, or how people say the Internet is making us stupid because filter bubble or what not. You guys keep going on about how, if you don't stop things now, it'll be bad down the road. This is blind idiocy. The nightmare scenario already showed up a thousand years ago. You need to figure out how to respond to it, rather than trying to prevent it. Figuring out how to scare the sheeple isn't a pissing contest between you and the state.