As soon as someone follows "we all have the right to privacy" with "but", a springboard should pop up from under their feet and launch them into space.

Unsurprising the first time I see a CBC article at the top of HN, it's a puff piece about how taking people's privacy is supposedly good for us. Real glad I paid for this article, but it's not like I'm not constantly paying for these clowns to produce slop that I find appalling. They recently spent $2 million to create a bunch of liberal propaganda podcasts that got a few hundred views per episode.

I hate this country.

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ipython 7 months ago | parent [-]

When the entire point of the enterprise (sky in this case) is to enable criminals, wouldn’t the enterprise itself be part of the criminal conspiracy?

I am all for privacy, but I’m also for rule of law. If I could start an encrypted messaging company that marketed exclusively to criminals, then wouldn’t I expect to be charged as abetting the crimes committed as a result of facilitating that communication?

It’s a question of intent. Law isn’t black and white- and law recognizes that tools can be dual use. It’s not perfect but nothing is.

	▲	dghlsakjg 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		No one is arguing that the company shouldn’t face consequences, people are arguing that their customers who aren’t part of some criminal enterprise shouldn’t have all of their messages intercepted, decrypted and put in a database.