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Re:How fateful? by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @10:57AM (#33081306)
Naive indeed; on the surface it sounds utopian. But who decides what a crime is? That's where it quickly flips over into becoming a dystopia. I mean, for example homosexuality is still a crime punishable by death in a lot of places; if you cannot hide that, then a lot of people would be picked up.

Your last point is exactly poignant; it'll be lawmakers who end up above the law, above the control. Which makes it more like 1984 than a "borg" utopia.

Re:How fateful? by nearbuy on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @04:37PM (#33086445)
Your point boils down to privacy is good because it lets people get away with crime and laws might be bad.

The solution shouldn't be to make crimes easier to hide. It's to legalize homosexuality.