The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.

  • @Raphael
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    -301 year ago

    “Fuck the children” is exactly the vibe I’m getting from this thread. They’ll have a good life being raised by drug addicts and then sold to some human trafficker.

    • @LemmyNameMyself
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      drugs are much more complex than “doing them is bad” and banning encrypted messanging apps and implementing surveillance does very little in terms of capturing pedos, while people who use them for legitamate reasons are screwed over

      • @Raphael
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        -141 year ago

        Scroll up and find the part where I said to ban encrypted messaging. You’ll find the following sentence instead “spying is bad”.

        • @stanleytweedle
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          131 year ago

          You also said

          Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.

          in response to

          And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?

          • @Raphael
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            Removed by mod

            • @stanleytweedle
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              Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.

              Can’t expect any smart idea from drug addicts though.

              You’re adorable.

              • @Raphael
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                -61 year ago

                Combating drugs is good, spying is not good, you need a very transparent law that tackles the issue in a smart way.

                • @stanleytweedle
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                  31 year ago

                  Combating drugs is good, spying is not good, you need a very transparent law that tackles the issue in a smart way.

                  Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.

                  Keep digging ;)

        • @LemmyNameMyself
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          31 year ago

          You didn’t say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - “think of the children”. There’s a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn’t normal and should not be normalised.

          • @Raphael
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            -101 year ago

            America, Smart. Pick one.

            • @LemmyNameMyself
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              71 year ago

              Every country has survaillance, US just makes the most noise with laws being passed. It’s the principle that matters - once other countries see that a certain law allows them to monitor people more closely, they’ll want to pass their version of that law. Australia is basically a Police State, UK also has very privacy-invasive laws.

              • @Raphael
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                -41 year ago

                Weird, only China gets called out for it by American media.

                • @LemmyNameMyself
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                  I mean, no suprise there, every country calls out every other country on that. It’s only OK for the American goverment agencies to spy on Americans.

    • @markr
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      31 year ago

      Perhaps you might consider asking what we ought to do instead of continuing the failed war on drugs?