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Lost in which arena? Do you trust politicians to not expand the scope of governance? If they are called out, they can simply rebrand their efforts under a new bill until 3 letter agencies get all the goodies they desire. How much patience does a low information public have? Is it as much as the political and security state classes?

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You're right, I don't think they can convince us this won't be abused, but they absolutely could sneak it past us.

They didn't get much push back when they threw out net neutrality which most Americans supported and as far as I know nothing was ultimately done about the faked opposition either (https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/biggest-isps-pai...)