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by ajsnigrutin 425 days ago
Not a crime, but somehow our dear EU overloads try every year or so to make it a crime in any way possible (eg. chat control).

If we want to play in a world with full transparency, let's start with the politicians!

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And also apply it equally to ecommerce and homebanking.

Lets see how happy the voters are when they have to start walking to their Bank again every week, can't order their latest temu toxic waste product anymore and their GDP drops in half.

And like always they claim its to protect our children... Who could possibly argue against protecting children?
Why do you need encryption? Are you sending pedo photos? Are you a pedo? Looks guys, here's a pedo who wants encryption not to get caught!

/s

Also 's/pedo/terrorist/', or {russian|chinese|iranian|north korean} spy or any "bad guy of the day".

The same people who want to make encryption a crime (like Trump 45[0]) are using signal to discuss sensitive information without an audit trail. It's absolutely rules for thee.

0 - https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/trump-officials-we...

Same with Chat Control. LEO and EU Mps would be exempted from being surveilled because their lives and communications need to be private since they are very important but yours, god no!

And people wonder why democracy is out of style. With democrats such as these, you don't need tyrants.