alecm, 5 months ago

I wish that I could be as optimistic as @ciaranmartinoxf regarding the eventual wisdom of the British state regarding end-to-end encryption, but I cannot…

There will have to be at least 2x changes of Government before what Ciaran is asking for below, can happen; the first will be an ouster of the Tories which is necessary because they are fuelling the Home Office mindset (NB: not the other way around) that “The Tech Companies Must Be Brought To Heel” in the most authoritarian way possible, because they have a confused understanding of how social media is all of us, mediated; they recognise that the unwashed public having a voice is a bad thing for them, but they believe that the middlmen can/will be the ones to fix it.

The problem is: Labour are in the same position but for mirror reasons. They whine about billionaires and “surveillance capitalism” and channel Ciaran’s second tweet, re-interpreting it as “the role of Government is to create new and different ways to protect the most vulnerable [demographics]” which – being literally a statist party – to them also means “tech interventionism” and trying to stop technology rather than trying to improve humans.

We are in thrall to politicians who are trying to find levers to pull in pursuit of protecting people, rather than educating them towards invulnerability.

The only way I can see this loop – 5 to 10 years of the same – being shortened is perhaps a LibDem coalition happening at some point and acting to rein-in the Home Office … but that seems hardly likely, and TBH it didn’t work out so well when Lynne Featherstone was in position to do something similar like that.

The only question is how much time is wasted before the state accepts the reality of basic modern communications security, & works out new & different ways to protect the most vulnerable in this new secure reality that users across the world demand 2/2https://t.co/fJ6YeGW4My

— Ciaran Martin (@ciaranmartinoxf) December 13, 2023

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