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by nyx-aiur 1778 days ago
The only problem is that you think a private cooperation and not the government YOU elect should be in charge of your privacy. Insanity this whole discussion is symptomatic with the whole tech bro movement. Everyone expects that the government THEY elect have the worst for them in mind. If you are really scared of your government you have to change the people that govern you and not build arbitrary tools to "secure" your privacy.
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least 1778 days ago
In the United States there exists a slim majority for much of the country's legislative houses. That indicates at least that there's a good chance if you don't have to right now that in your lifetime you will have to treat the government as adversarial.

In all honesty I think everyone should treat the government as an adversarial force when it comes to respecting your privacy or rights. Much of bill of rights was introduced as a response to the concerns of the government's overreach. Built in protections to impede totalitarianism.

In that regard, you can't simply rely on the government to legislate towards your interests and assuming that they will is foolish. Creating tools to secure your privacy is essential, not arbitrary.

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asaddhamani 1778 days ago
The government has already done plenty of things without our knowledge, PRISM and the Snowden revelations. No matter who you elect the government will keep doing these things and will only expand the scope, and 99% of people won’t care, and the rest are labelled “the screeching voices of the minorities”.

Apple made privacy their selling point (Privacy. That’s iPhone), and that set the expectations of privacy people have with their products.

“Tech bro movement” what?

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josephcsible 1778 days ago
> Everyone expects that the government THEY elect have the worst for them in mind.

In basically every election, almost half of the voters voted for the loser.

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syshum 1778 days ago
Everyone should be at all times scared of government power, and no saying "just elect better people" is not a solution.

Government should be limited in power and scope, never allowed to expand beyond that power and scope, unfortunately since the 1930's we have allowed the US government to expand to a size that is untenable and is at odds with the concept of liberty itself

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