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I can not wait for all the people to tell me if I do not support this law then I want children to be abused.

I cannot wait for all the people to tell me if I do not oppose this law then I am a neo-Fascist.

Are you supporting this law in favor of the purported "more safety for children" outcome regardless of the privacy impact? Or do you believe the government should have access to the information that's generally encrypted?

I'm in the latter camp. If I can't trust the people my community decided to represent us, then I can only fix that problem by organizing and running myself. I haven't done that just yet. I'm very much on the fence here though - since this does grant a lot of power to the government...

But I don't really feel like this is the most effective way to make our children safer, and I feel like framing it like that is disingenuous. Maybe the reps who introduce it feel that passionately about this issue - but I'm sure a less drastic solution is available.

Maybe we should apply the "principle of least privilege" to the government!

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