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> I swear, sometimes in threads like this it's hard to tell if someone is trolling or legitimately can't ponder the unintended (or, perhaps, fully intended but thinly veiled) consequences of laws that serve to grant the state access to private communications.

The post you're answering to basically asks why removing privacy from society is a bad thing. I think that a simple link such as [1] is enough as an answer to this fairly common question, troll or not.

[1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565 ('I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy)



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