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But the voters are being purposefully misinformed by that very same government. It's literally circular reasoning.

Your argument would hold more weight if the people voting were actually well informed and educated about what the implications of their votes would be. If the government came out and said "everything you do, say, click and load will be saved for latter analysis" do you think they would vote the same way?

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The argument would also carry more weight if the voters actually had a chance to vote on this issue orthogonally to everything else, rather than picking a candidate and hoping.

(Not that I'd accept building a backdoor just because 50%+1 people wanted access to my users' data, either, but at least then the argument made in the post you replied to would have any meaning at all.)

What exactly are they being "purposefully misinformed" about?

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