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by qwerty456127 1586 days ago
This is blatant disrespect of the people. Every time the government, its agencies and their pet organizations draw the "protect the children" card that's appealing to the most technically-illiterate and privacy-unmindful people who have zero understanding of how does the web work, can't think two turns in advance and naïvely believe they "have nothing to hide" and nothing like this[1] can possibly affect them, let alone an inherently malevolent party getting their unencrypted data to misuse it in quite a number of ways possible.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60369875