UK launches “No Place To Hide” propaganda campaign to ban E2EE

Post by maxerickson » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 11:42 PM UTC

nathanaldensr wrote: post #119

maxerickson wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citizen resistance against a modern military is largely a LARP fantasy.

You assume that: 1. there are enough armed forces personnel to police the third or fourth largest country by land mass in the world (the United States) 2. that every single armed forces personnel would unquestioningly obey what constitutes illegal orders (military deployment on American soil) 3. that the entire population would simply sit down and let themselves be overrun by the military. I think you should check yo…

Post by heavenlyblue » Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 4:12 PM UTC

Youden wrote: post #107

styeco wrote: post #25

Sorry for the choice words, but shit like this makes my blood boil. You're not trying to "keep our children safe" motherfucker, and you know it. You're trying to prevent people from being able to have private conversations, so your secret agencies can harvest all the data from everyone easily. To phrase it as "but think of the children" is instrumentalizing the actual victims of child abuse and you should be ashamed.

You might not realize it but there really are people who honestly, genuinely, in their heart-of-hearts think this way and if you want to have a chance at inducing real change in the world, you need to acknowledge that they exist and see things from their point of view. It's easy to forget but not everyone lives in a bubble full of privacy-conscious techfolk. There are people whose children were groomed online and con…