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Pandora's iPhone, by Stuart Carlson, 2016. Still spot-on in 2026:

A backdoor for the good guys simply does not exist. Once you build it, hackers walk through, authoritarian governments walk through, and the rest follows.

The UK is pressuring for chat control right now. EU Chat Control initiatives keep popping up. We need to keep saying NO to this!

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[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Black Panthers, BLM organizers, anti ICE protestors

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And how many of those are they executing /day?

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Oh yeah well it's not happening every day" dude it's fine that there are groups of people in the US who fear execution by their government who you forgot about. Nobody remembers everyone all the time, but it's weird to get argumentative and start moving goalposts about it.