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I feel like anti encryption bills will only ban it from the main stream and be used to punish people who don't let the police see their devices (pricefield.org)

submitted 1 year ago by skymtf@pricefield.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like anti encryption bills do nothing but allow the mainstream public go get their DMS used for ads, and punish people who don't give all their data to cops upon arrest. I feel like people like me would just use foreign matrix instances where encryption is legal

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[–] opt9@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago

The solution is that companies, groups, and individuals simply run their own instances, just like Lemmy. These bills will actually do us good and get us to drop these massive, centralized, communication companies that have all our data and spy on us anyway. We spend all our time asking if this or that company spies on its users or not. Run your own server, there are plenty of high quality open source projects out there to choose from and it's really not that hard. Run a server for friends and family. People wanna b lazy and then whine.....