Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door [LWN.net]

Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door

Posted Mar 21, 2020 19:07 UTC (Sat) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door by nix
Parent article: Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door

Trying to restrict the rich from having the loudest voice is laudable but totally futile, it can never work. The only counter-measure is "freedom of information" = *who* is paying for this or that propaganda. That is of course under attack too but it's a much simpler and actually winnable fight.

Bringing encryption restrictions in through the back door

Posted Apr 9, 2020 0:15 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The only cures for inequality that have heretofore been known are warfare and plague, but that doesn't mean that warfare and plague are *good* things, or that it is not desirable to find other ways to reduce the power of the mighty. Of *course* it's worth trying to restrict the rich from having the loudest voice, just as it is desirable to restrict the rich and powerful from having absolute power of life and death over everyone.