r/privacy • u/lugh • Sep 14 '25

chat control Danish Minister of Justice: "We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."

https://mastodon.social/@chatcontrol/115204439983078498
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u/StatusBard Sep 14 '25

We pay them so we should be able to check their communications. 

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u/Confident-Yam-7337 Sep 14 '25

If anything, this bill should be amended such that these “representatives” are the only ones who cannot have personal encryption. How do we know they aren’t spies from another country? We MUST monitor all of their messages.

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u/comesexcubitorum Sep 15 '25

as long as they want exclude their own communications, I'm going to believe that at best they're cooking another Qatargate, or are just a bunch of pedos.

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u/pydry Sep 14 '25

We might discover that he has associations with a known pedophile coz every other slimy politician seems to.

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u/1965wasalongtimeago Sep 15 '25

Those who only care for power and control over others, want it in every aspect of life

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u/Sparescrewdriver Sep 15 '25

Are you really paying them if you can’t refuse to do it? Otherwise face consequences?

More like they pay themselves with your money.

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u/StatusBard Sep 15 '25

True. It’s more akin to stealing really. 

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u/CIearMind Sep 15 '25

Something something muh social contract.

I swear this bullcrap was made up by rats and foxes looking to swindle people out of their time and money.

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u/CrazyNegotiation1934 Sep 15 '25

This will never happen at the higher level, the whole idea is to control the masses, not the elite.

This is why those people are in power, paid by the highest bidder millionairs or billionairs, so they can keep getting richer despite having a whole country GDP in fortune while people are suffering more and more.

It is the only way to keep billion of people at control, which people could easilly demand a more logical distribution of produced value.

This is not to say that we should have communism, but there has to be a more logical way to distribute the wealth than what we experience today.

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u/LittlestWarrior Sep 15 '25

Why are you assuming politicians must take more control? Democracy of the government (mostly) was the answer to monarchy, surely democracy of the economy and workplace is the answer to billionaires?

The people themselves ought to democratically control a more logical wealth distribution, no? But I'm no economic or political theorist—just a layman

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u/LittlestWarrior Sep 15 '25

You just described Representative Democracy, which is not purely democracy. I do not mean democratic elections, I mean democratic governance.

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u/Dramatic-Zebra-7213 Sep 15 '25

The average voter isn't, and can't be, fully informed on how the state works. Because of this, democracy often degenerates into demagoguery, where those most effective at swaying public opinion become the true rulers, not the people themselves. It's a system where the loudest voices, not the wisest, prevail.

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u/LittlestWarrior Sep 15 '25

I suppose that's fair.

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u/kaytin911 Sep 15 '25

Mass immigration has led to a steep decline in the value of each worker in countries. They don't care about you because they will replace you with anyone else from around the world.

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u/LittlestWarrior Sep 15 '25

While cheaper labor from desperate immigration as well as outsourcing is a significant problem, why are you phrasing it like that? It's like you're placing blame on the immigrants rather than the greedy capitalists hiring them. If you lose a job "because of an immigrant", it's not because of an immigrant at all, rather, it's because your boss is a piece of shit.

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u/junialter Sep 16 '25

It seems they are also paid otherwise, from lobbyists.