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why would i want to make it impossible for government to monitor people ?

government monitoring people by itself is not a problem, government monitoring people to harm people is the problem.

What need to be fixed is the usage of tools to harm people, not the tool itself.

The only thing that keeps them from harming you is your power relative to them. Handing them more power only increases the probability that they will abuse what powers they do have.

I thought the election of Trump would disabuse people of this idea that it’s smart to hand more and more power to central authorities. But at this point I think it’s hopeless. People just want the state to be Daddy, and assume or hope that its power will always be wielded by people they like against people they don’t.

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