[inglor_cz]

"Corporate America never backs down. It simply rallies and tries again later until people are too fatigued to care. "

Frankly, that sounds excactly like Chat Control and similar recurring attempts to enact total surveillance here in the EU (Now shifted to heavy-handed age verification and various politicians touting bans on VPNs.) I don't want to abandon my continent of birth, though...

[Grimblewald]

Then you have to fight, not just the battle but the war. Its not enoygh to get people to back down, keep going, go for the throat. Demand the resignation of the politician proposing the bill. If theres no risk for trying, theyll keep trying.

[red-iron-pine]

guess who is pushing for those anti-privacy laws?

hint: they're publicly traded

[inglor_cz]

I have encountered enough such people to know that the really heavy push is coming from the police and secret service circles. These are the workplaces that attract all the wannabe Stasi types.

[sixothree]

I am 100% convinced the reason laptops came with webcams as standard so early on, even when webcams were an expensive option, was because law enforcement needed to spy on people.