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		wanda on Jan 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UK government plans publicity blitz against encryp... Don't forget to promote chopping off everyone's hands. I hear some ultra-right-wing people might be typing their nonsense with their hands. So we should make sure no one has hands, that'll get em. ~ Also, this list of US news vendors' articles against e2ee is kinda evidence that it's not just the UK going on a campaign.

ufmace on Jan 16, 2022 [–]

I think the parent was commenting not on the ability of disfavored groups to use encrypted chat to organize, but on how readily the current social elite can be scared into banning anything by telling them that such disfavored groups are using it.

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