alt Hacker NewsChildren are often used as a weapon to erode freedoms, like privacy and speech. Those pushing it rarely actually care about the children.
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owisd • today at 6:39 PM
Feels like this has gone completely meta and it's now way more common to see people who don't care about children refusing to support that any proposal that might benefit children under the assumption that nobody cares about children so there must be an ulterior motive.
While I’m decidedly pro-encryption, I don’t like this argument. If something is the right thing, it would still be the right thing when promoted for the wrong reasons, and if it’s the wrong thing, it’s still the wrong thing even when at present nobody has ulterior motives.
When arguing against surveillance, the arguments should be on its merits, not on whether the current proponents happen to have ulterior motives.