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As someone who relies on my head of state to not be compromised by foreign actors and journalists to help me hold my politicians accountable, I do, in fact, need to be afraid of the toolset NSO is selling.
That's like people who say, "I don't have anything to hide, I've done nothing wrong." to which I reply, "Ok. Take your clothes off right now. Remove the curtains from your bedroom window and the door off of your bathroom." The look on their face is that of incredulity. People have an expectation of privacy and need the ability to hide perfectly benign things in their lives. Most importantly, they should have the free…
I have a lot of things to hide from criminals and little to hide from the police. I fear your metaphor is a fallacy... If people dont want to be naked in public it s because they expect onlookers to abuse of their image to exploit it, there s an argument to say that the police isn't at risk of doing so. I'm not saying you re wrong in principle, just that your easy fallacy is just that.
I fear your assumption that these groups are disjoint is a fallacy.