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Denmark reportedly withdraws Chat Control proposal following controversy

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569 points layer8 | 1 comments | 30 Oct 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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aljgz ◴[31 Oct 25 13:19 UTC] No.45771697[source]▶
From first person experience, once a society creates a surveillance state, to protect whatever, an inevitable avalanche starts.

A new game will emerge in which the best players are the ones who excel at finding secrets of others and use them as leverage. We had a president on national TV threating a challenging candidate that he will reveal their secrets... Think about that for a moment and you'll find so many wrong things that this implicitly admits to.

The disease was a blessing compared to the complications of the cure.

Nations like to hope things won't happen to them.

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1. thrance ◴[31 Oct 25 17:03 UTC] No.45774227[source]▶
I don't think a surveillance state is the root cause of authoritarianism, in that sense I believe it is a slippery slope fallacy. I am still very much against this kind of mass surveillance, simply I think this rhetoric is doing everyone a disservice.

We don't get authoritarianism without an actual will from a group of people with enough power and support to achieve it. Mass surveillance is simply a milestone on their path to oppression.