[4ad]

On the contrary, now with locked smartphones and tablets this is very easy to implement. Of course it would be trivially defeatable, but that is never the point. The vast majority of people would not know how to defeat it. The law is not concerned with edge cases, it's concerned with bulk surveillance.

Just like the laws against cryptography. Lawmakers are not stupid, they know they can't stop bad actors from using crypto. They don't care about bad actors, they care about you and me.

[mirimir]

Well, sure there are "bad actors". But some of us like to work around that bullshit just for fun, and to share :) And indeed, many of those "bad actors" are actually pretty clueless.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

Would you really share if you knew you would get charged as someone who supports human trafficking and faced a decade long prison sentence? Even if you beat the charge, how employable would you be of the first thing people saw when they searched for you is your mugshot as someone arrested for supporting human trafficking?

[mirimir]

Huh?

First, I wouldn't knowingly consult for human traffickers. But I do share online in various forums, some of which are effectively anonymous.

Second, Mirimir is a pseudonym. It's quite well firewalled from my meatspace identity. And it actually plays pretty safe. For anything at all iffy, I use temporary personas, and compartmentalize more thoroughly.

Third, by that standard there'd be no Tor Project, or Freenet Project, and a lot fewer Github sites.

[IntronExon]

Good point, but wouldn’t a few of the other 6.7 billion people on earth do it? They won’t care about US law, nor should they.