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A good way to think about any potential law like this is to imagine your worst enemy or most hated politician was given power to abuse said law, and then think about all the ways they could use it to make your life miserable

always think about the worst case scenario when it comes to privacy, because that will be the end result




To me we don't even consider the actual worse case scenario.

Is there any doubt 50 years from now all this will be on algorithmic autopilot for digital authoritarianism? All societies will have Chinese style monitoring but to an unimaginable degree even to people in China right now.

People outside IT were barely even using the internet 25 years ago. We are at the very start of this and already too far gone. You just have to enjoy these times and what we still have.




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