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[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why don't politicians just fuck off?

Nothing they ever do about anything leads to an improvement.

[–] _TheNardDog_@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agreed that they should definitely fuck off, but this will be pushed y the security services. A change of government won’t change the drive for this sort of bollocks.

“Oh but what about the criminals, terrorists and pedos?”

What about all the people that aren’t that who loose their privacy?

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“Oh but what about the criminals, terrorists and pedos?”

What about the Windsors?

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prince Andrew: "Think of the children!"

[–] _TheNardDog_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think I said them didn’t I, after terrorists?

[–] echo64@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The criminals, terrorists and pedos won't by affected. They will just switch to non weakened encryption.

It's always been about mass surveillance.

[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I hate politicians too but they did give us organizations like OSHA that protect us at work. Not all politicians are pieces of shit…but certainly MOST are.

[–] picassowary@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“politicians never do anything good” is a myopic viewpoint that is completely understandable in the modern political climate, i think. which is unfortunate, because a political party that learned to harness that energy to actually become known for doing good could probably grow very quickly

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 15 points 1 year ago

They exist. They just get hamstrung by opposition and the general public's lazy attitude of "everyone sucks" vs actually learning about their available choices.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Obvious counter-examples are abundant. I choose the global eradication of smallpox.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

That sounds like typical bOtH sIdEs bullshit.