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by jasomill 51 days ago
Unfortunately, these efforts will continue so long as the idea that "if I'm not doing anything wrong, I have nothing to hide" remains commonplace.

The optimist in me hopes that attempts to censor popular and relatively harmless content like pornography will discredit this notion for good, sort of like how Internet commerce put to rest the idea that cryptography was only useful for governments, corporations, and bad actors.