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Re:Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys by cortesoft on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:45PM (#25119769)
Private emails are not speech. Are you suggesting all private conversations should be public? That seems absurd to me. Do you subscribe to the "surveillance isn't bad if you have nothing to hide" concept?
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Re:Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys by yew on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:12PM (#25119918)
Sending death threats or racial invectives by private message is as much speech as sending them by Twitter post.

All private conversations shouldn't be published. That isn't necessary to hold people accountable for dangerous or violent speech.

Publication and repudiation aren't the same thing.

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Re:Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys by cortesoft on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:05AM (#25120440)
There is no way to allow the verification of a death threat message without also allowing the verification of political dissidents, for example.

Yes, it might make it harder to punish death threats, but privacy is too important to sacrifice.

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