[freetanga]

I remind you Turings fate by his own government for being gay not 60 years ago. Today being gay or straight is a non issue in most countries, and Turing life would have been different.

My take is the following: we have governments because we tolerate them. Constitutions are nothing more than a social agreement, and they could be torn apart and remade at any point in time.

Politicians are our employees - we hire them, we pay them, we can fire them. Sadly in the past 80 years we have started seeing them as our saviors and forgot their power emanates from us.

I don’t want my employee (the government) telling me what to do and tracking me. It’s irrelevant whether I have or not something to hide.

[baxtr]

I understand this stance and it makes sense.

The OP, and that’s how it started, said he switched to signal due to “data harvesters” like Meta.

I feel like the conversation here diverged from that to something different.

PS: I absolutely follow the logic of restricting politicians. Unfortunately these people are versed with power and how to use it. Otherwise they would have not ended at the top…