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Why are so many European countries getting worried about encryption and/or age verification? Why now? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I can understand why governments would push for something like this after 9/11, though it of course goes without saying that this is a totally unacceptable violation of someone's basic rights. It also goes without saying that governments always want more control over their citizens, but what exactly are they so worried might happen, right now, in 2025 or the near future?

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[–] 19 points 1 year ago

It's nothing new, They try to pull some bullshit at least once every decade. In the USA it was the Clipper Chip in the 90s where they said "trust the government with a backdoor" and then it got cracked and they tried very hard to prosecute one of the inventors of PGP... in the 2010s it was SOPA and other bills they tried to pass.

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