It's easy to point fingers at large-scale evil-doers, but none of those exist in a vacuum, do they?
Do we perhaps want stricter laws to protect people's anonymity? Cause I thought we wanted less laws, in order to allow for greater freedom.
Ah, I got it, we want balance. But just a little tilted this way, if that's okay.
Hard to please.
Thats the point potamic made the focus is on the evil large-scale doers do not the potential evil of their tech outside of their control, an argument large scale doers tend to hand wave as not going to happen.
Now that it has happened there is no point debating laws as evil doers are not controlled by laws.
This is the argument privacy advocates have made for years and now it has happened it's too late to protect people by changing laws.
Seeing a problem before it happens and presenting a solution to prevent that problem is not being hard to please, it's the exact opposite.
Wanting to weaken privacy so you can invade peoples privacy but not have other invade that persons privacy is being hard to please and its the attitude politicians take and its the root cause of this problem.
Needless strawman. No one calling for more privacy is calling for smaller government.
I can be perfectly happy to publish public thoughts under my real name but take objection to large scale tracking, collection of data from private conversations, and back doors to my personal devices.