• HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca
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    17 hours ago

    If the state can’t protect its people from the damage that technology and capitalism can do, they have no right to prevent people from protecting themselves.

    Fix climate change. Tax billionaires. Address the housing crisis. Then we can talk about taking away privacy in the name of upholding the law.

    • manxu@piefed.social
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      14 hours ago

      Doesn’t even have to be a lofty goal like fixing climate change. I’d settle for the backdoors not leading to disclosure and scams, as any such weakening of security or privacy inadvertently does.

      When there was the leak of ID photos from that one site (forget which one) I sighed, because neither the users nor the site wanted to keep ID photos around, but the government made them do that. It was the most predictable result I could have imagined.

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        8 hours ago

        I’d also settle for the billionnaires getting a French revolutionary treatment. It’s high time the reactionary leeches get what they fucking deserve: they must pay their taxes, hand over all their media ownership to the public, and a shitton more. And if they don’t want that, then by police force, or by the will of the people.