Obviously this sucks as a proposal but... how do we stop the child porn?
Just a thought, but maybe we should arrest people who make child porn.
What about those outside the country?
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#72I cannot believe that the one thing we have bipartisan consensus on is destroying strong encryption. I guess I’m biased since this is essentially my whole livelihood, but this is crazy, right?
Well, nsa mass surveillance and legalized torture were never repelled by any side. In fact, the patriot act has been prolongued 5 times, no matter the administration, and is still in effect. As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind. Fighting for either seems so futile from here. Of course, we have similar problems as well so I'm not going to pretend I have a solution.
> As a european, I don't see any party that actually have american people's interest in mind.
As an American, I don't see any party that has my interests in mind. Elections always seem to be having to choose the lesser of two evils.
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#74Why does this matter?
The US government can force you to give them your keys, and gag you so you can't say anything...
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#75The primary impediment to combating child sexual abuse material is the scarcity of law enforcement agents relative to the scale of offenders.[0] Law enforcement agencies are already at the limit of how many offenders they can prosecute because offenders are primarily detected by agents who are posing as offenders or by agents who are posing as victims. The solution proposed by the researchers in the referenced docume…
That scares me. If that entrapment-at-scale is legal, it could be deployed to throw huge numbers of people in jail for buying drugs or supporting terrorism.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can run, and with that platform your opponent will conveniently turn it around into "my opponent supports child molestors and terrorists". Because if you think you'll simply walk up to the podium talking about something most folks could not give a working definition for, boy, are you going to be in for a shock when your opponent "dumbs it down" for the audience. Which is how we end up with stuff like the EARN IT…
"My opponent supports the attorney general having access to your porn habits. I support your privacy" is a pretty straightforward simplified riposte to your above oversimplification.
Let's take it a step further:
"My opponent supports giving all law enforcement officers unrestricted access to your children's chats, photos and calls."
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some of the programs originally from the USA PATRIOT Act expired in March 2020.
Do you happen to know which ones?
Section 215 is the major one. Allows government to obtain secret warrants for surveillance via a secret court system(FISC, FISA).
Lindsey Graham(R) tried to extend this- but Trump has been somewhat vocally against this extension due to his own allegations that the FISA courts were misused to spy on him.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a thought, but maybe we should arrest people who make child porn.
What about those outside the country?
Why not bomb the shit out of them?
Or finally dispense with the desire to police the residents of other countries, and contact the local authorities.
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#79I cannot believe that the one thing we have bipartisan consensus on is destroying strong encryption. I guess I’m biased since this is essentially my whole livelihood, but this is crazy, right?
Fear-mongering is strong. Look at all the freedoms we lost after 9/11. Pedophiles and terrorists and porn are always the scapegoats.
It is also a very electable sound bite. Everyone is against the "bad people". Re-election at any cost is the goal. We have government of the people and by the people but we stopped being for the people long long ago.
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#80I cannot believe that the one thing we have bipartisan consensus on is destroying strong encryption. I guess I’m biased since this is essentially my whole livelihood, but this is crazy, right?
> I cannot believe that the one thing we have bipartisan consensus
Hawkish foreign policy would be another one.