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		akomtu on Oct 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europol sought unlimited data access in online chi... If this was 1023 A.D. we would be talking about heretics, and Inquisition that must oppress every man and woman to protect them from themselves.

throwaway290 on Oct 1, 2023 [–]

Thankfully it isn't.

eschaton on Oct 1, 2023 | [–]

Depends greatly on where you live.

Furthermore, a lot of the same forces that are trying to get rid of end to end encryption are explicitly trying to take their parts of society back to that.

throwaway290 on Oct 2, 2023 | | [–]

This is conspiratorial nonsense in democratic countries where most of this audience lives.

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