[thirduncle]

Ban them all you like, they will be used regardless.

We'll see about that. I'd say legal bans are worth a try at least.

Privacy is dead, and nobody can save it.

If you keep repeating that to yourself as you go to sleep each night - by gosh, eventually it will become true.

[excalibur]

Your philosophy is admirable. Unfortunately it's also the one that led us here. Shall we wait until the surveillance state has us intractably under its boot before we stop arguing over whether its power should exist and start focusing on who we would like wielding it?