[NewsaHackO]

People look at laws like Chat Control and ask, "How could anyone have thought that it was a good idea?" But then you see comments like this, and you can actually see how such viewpoints can blossom in the wild. It's baffling to see in real time.

[SpicyLemonZest]

The underlying problem is that the closure of widely shared intuitive beliefs about data privacy is quite nonintuitive. I routinely find myself in conversations, both online and offline, where people are baffled to discover that data privacy rules get in the way of some nice thing they're trying to do.