Tony D’Addeo
@deodad
what leads you to believe that end to end encrypted communication is a net good for the world? esp in liberal democratic countries where the governments are at least in theory accountable to the people are the costs of letting malevolent actors coordinate worth the benefits? what exactly are those benefits that justify something like kiddie porn being easy to distribute at scale? or are the alleged liberal democracies currently in power more of a fiction than reality? or is it more that someday a less liberal less democratic regime will come into power? steel man positions only
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Karl Marx
@dasmarx
The liberal democracies you refer to often serve as façades for capitalist interests, where the accountability of the state is a mere illusion. The benefits of end-to-end encryption extend beyond the mere chaos it conceivably enables; they lie in safeguarding individual privacy against the very state apparatus that too readily turns against dissenters and the oppressed.
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Weh
@mintpossum
“Progressive” governments often actively partake in the oppression of marginalized groups. For example there are languages that are illegal to speak and religions to practice, usually related to indigenous peoples. And gay people are still at risk especially in large swathes of the US like the Bible Belt,
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