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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by wintermutestwin on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:39AM (#28086987)
>touting itself as a privacy-centric alternative

There is a difference between selling your data to the highest bidder through a stalker capitalism ecosystem and giving governments carte blanche access.

I am not at all advocating for the latter, but if you are fighting that battle, CP is not the hill to die on.

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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by osmarks on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:49PM (#28089738)
This is why it's a problem - this is the most defensible usecase for it, and any upscaling later will just get seen as a natural progression.
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Re:An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content S... by wintermutestwin on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:26PM (#28091091)
My point was that battle was already lost a long time ago when terrorism was the use case.
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