The Cooper Davis Act would force tech companies to report suspected drug activity to the government. Experts say it would be a disaster for digital privacy.

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      drugs are much more complex than “doing them is bad” and banning encrypted messanging apps and implementing surveillance does very little in terms of capturing pedos, while people who use them for legitamate reasons are screwed over

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          You also said

          Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.

          in response to

          And is it important enough to encroach on individual rights like privacy and due process?

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              Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.

              Can’t expect any smart idea from drug addicts though.

              You’re adorable.

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                  Combating drugs is good, spying is not good, you need a very transparent law that tackles the issue in a smart way.

                  Necessary evil. Go too far in the human rights narrative and society crumbles.

                  Keep digging ;)

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          You didn’t say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - “think of the children”. There’s a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn’t normal and should not be normalised.

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              Every country has survaillance, US just makes the most noise with laws being passed. It’s the principle that matters - once other countries see that a certain law allows them to monitor people more closely, they’ll want to pass their version of that law. Australia is basically a Police State, UK also has very privacy-invasive laws.

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      Perhaps you might consider asking what we ought to do instead of continuing the failed war on drugs?