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  • I'd say it's more like a global broad push to kill privacy than encryption specifically. Encryption is a big part of it, but not the whole picture

    * Flock monitoring

    * Border device searches

    * Age controls and the implied "hand over real ID"

    * Push for backdoors

    * Palantir & DOGE grabbing data

    * Move towards cloud (and less ability to afford own hardware)

    * Secure boot style attestation

    * Cross device tracking

    * CF and friends acting as internet police

    * GrapheneOS troubles

    * Independent sites dying & more focus on walled gardens

    ...some of those aren't necessarily intentional (e.g. price of hardware), but it's hard not to read this as a larger agenda of sorts. Or maybe I'm just paranoid haha

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