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There isn't any difference in my mind between the government executing unconstitutional searches and the government requiring companies to conduct searches that if conducted by the government would be unconstitutional. Warrant-less searches by the federal government are unconstitutional; getting a warrant requires having probable cause. Without probable cause and a warrant, requiring a company to conduct searches on behalf of the government is unconstitutional as well." "Yes. That's what end-to-end encryption is, a new language that only those two systems know how to speak. I'll be the asshat marked troll for saying this too, but sorry kids. Child exploitation is a scourge on our society, but stopping isn't isn't worth the price of losing our rights to privacy to talk amongst each other. It's just not. There. Said it. The ends don't justify the means in this case. We can't end every freedom we've fought for in the name of ending child exploitation." "This is about controlling the rest of us. Criminals, as we and the government know, are perfectly capable of using strong encryption. I've seen over and over these weak excuses, these pathetic fig leaves Congress-critters use. They don't provide them because they believe them or because the goats will accept them. They provide them for the purposes of the propaganda, the fodder they and they owned media put out for the sheep." "It's the same nonsense you hear over here in Europe when it comes to surveillance. No matter how many liberties they take away and how much they spy on people by putting everyone under the blanket of suspicioun, it's never seems to be enough. Shit still happens and even appears to be getting worse if we look at the current racist extremism in Germany for example. Now there's an entirely new thing to be afraid of - a large dark figure of far-right extremism that has somehow gone unnoticed and is growing despite all the domestic spying that is already done. So what's to be done about that? Their answer appears to be always along the same lines: we're not spying enough. More will fix this. Hence I'd expect that would be a dangerous step to satisfy one's curiosity as things are not likely to change that much except that the erosion of freedoms progressed one step further to widespread acceptance." "Personally if it comes down to a choice between weaker security for everyone or letting bad guys go free (be they someone who wants to rob the local liquor store and steal a few bucks and a bottle of Jack Daniels, someone who wants to shoot up the local church because the church doesn't believe in the right god, someone who jacks off to photos of 5 year old kids or someone who wants to fly a plane full of people into the side of a building, I will take the strong security over catching the bad guys." "If we ask tech companies to fix ancient societal ills that are now reflected online with moderation, then we will end up with huge, democratically-unaccountable organizations controlling our lives in ways we never intended. And those ills will still exist below the surface."