I don’t care if it seems political, it’s reality. This is just the most effective tool the government has for manufacturing consent at the moment.
This is the just the thing we’re already clearly willing to give up civil liberties for in another areas, primarily in freedom of speech and basic property rights. Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue.
Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment.
Support encryption backdoors, we need them to fight White Nationalist Terrorist Insurrectionists!
If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it.
>Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue
This is completely false: entire media companies are dedicated to it.
>Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment.
Again, I could just as easily say >Fear of socialism is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment.
That does not make it true.
>If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it.
This is the just the thing we’re already clearly willing to give up civil liberties for in another areas, primarily in freedom of speech and basic property rights. Complaining about it this seen as unacceptable — you can’t criticize or question any mainstream view put out by the media on this issue.
Identity politics is the clear and only vehicle for this kind of suppression of basic rights at the moment.
Support encryption backdoors, we need them to fight White Nationalist Terrorist Insurrectionists!
If there is some sort of PATRIOT Act 2.0 under the current administration targeted at “domestic terrorism” I absolutely guarantee you someone will at least try to put an encryption backdoor in it.