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		dartharva 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messagi... For a democratic leader to do this, there must be some nontrivial subset of their voter base who support it. In all this ruckus over Europe trying to ban encrypted communication I keep wondering - who the hell are the voters pushing for this?

bell-cot 3 months ago [–]

So long as you proclaim "to protect our children" (or whatever) loudly, >50% of voters will support anything that they don't really understand.

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