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Will data retention make our communities safe?

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eee_eff
2 years ago

The other issue here is the dampening of the free exchange of ideas and opinions. If everyone knows that their posts will be recorded and tracable for a very long time, there will begin to be a reluctance to freely state one's opinions (not one of my problems, to be sure, as TLF readers will attest)

Today, it may be said that this infrastructure is being built to fight child molesters. It is even possible that some who are advocating the creation of this vast infrastructure of control believe it.

But we are building a very powerful and I would even say dangerous infrastructure that could be misused by future regime that might not be so benevolent.

MikeT
2 years ago

engima_foundry, there is also the fact that it would be able to track many user accounts. The average credential set passed along by shared web hosts, for example, is not encrypted. If my ISP did this sort of thing, it would capture my username and password for my blog for up to two years because I don't have the money to get SSL and a static IP. I don't get why major bloggers are not even writing about this issue.

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