this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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This has nothing to do with children. It's a proposal by technologically inept people who argue that encryption needs to be removed but encryption is so basic that it isn't really feasible to do so. You can make the access harder but that is only an issue for your average joe. Individuals with criminal energy who this is supposed to be about will continue to encrypt their communication while regular users will give up their privacy.
At the age of 15 I programmed my own decentralised encrypted messenger from first principles (like did the math from scratch) just to prove how easy it is to do. If a 15year old with no ai can do it then fucking anyone can.
If privacy becomes illegal only criminals will have privacy.