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by noodlesoups 2091 days ago
It's never been about protecting people, it's about power. What is the source of most power? Knowledge. Knowledge about anything and everything. It's unimaginable what you could do with access to every conversation ever had, retroactively at your fingertips.

Power is neutral, it's users are not. We have already seen the dangerous precedent China has set with it's all-encompassing surveillance and human-rights violations.