[hifier]

He very often applies this tactic of trying to make the other side seem unreasonable.

This is the most important issue of our generation. You cannot have it both ways Mr. President. There is no middle ground. You either support the right to privacy or you do not. There are only two options and you have to pick one.

[adamc]

Please consider signing the apple-privacy-petition if you are an American: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/apple-privacy-peti...

[iamdave]

I'm sorry, but I absolutely have no faith in this petition site anymore...willing to change my mind given sufficient data but given history, it seems like window dressing.

[studentrob]

Yes. Discuss the issue online. Make Facebook posts and YouTube videos. Talk about it with your friends.

CALL your representatives to let them know how you feel and why. Email them. It works, they do listen. There are bills being proposed in NY and CA that would force companies to insert back doors or face a penalty. The issue is now political at the highest level, and our President is spreading the misinformed view of fear, uncertainty and doubt. Given Trump's campaign success, we should all be very afraid at the effectiveness of this uninformed stance.

[wiseleo]

Signed and shared. Regardless of its efficacy, at least 100,000 people will declare their opposition.

[rayiner]

You could've said the same thing in 1789. Either you support the right of privacy (let police enter into peoples' homes without their consent) or you don't. Those are the only two options. No reasonable middle ground to be had in-between.

[learc83]

I think the argument here isn't that the government never has a right to access your private information with a warrant (or maybe it is and I'm misreading).

The argument is that if you support the right to keep your document private from everything except legitimate government access, you can't insist that manufacturers build in back doors to allow government access. There just isn't a technologically feasible way to build a backdoor that only government agencies with warrants can use.

[deadowl]

Maybe he just wants people to feel how he felt when Hillary had her infamous "kitchen sink" strategy moment.