Problem → Reaction → Solution
Oi mate! Are you encrypting oivah here?
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Man that’s kinda fucked up. Does it look like it will push through?
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I’d say it’s not impossible, i see nothing that could prevent any current 
government to do whatever the hell they want.
Even the fact that they want that and think that’s appropriate - should get hardest backlash ever.
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Kind of ironic how it’s called the “Online Safety” act. I fear the rest of the world will follow suit, especially us developing countries who don’t really have ideas of our own.
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Oh you better be sure of that - that’s the
Probably not this time. But failing won’t make them stop trying until they do succeed.
They first try to grab a mile, then they fail repeatedly, then they take an inch and succeed. Then they take another inch, and another… Next thing you know, they’ve taken ten miles and it’s too late to do anything about it.
That’s how it goes, with everything. Our liberties are not taken away in big, dramatic moves, they are slowly eroded away. Actually, it only seems to be happening slowly, it’s very fast, it just not obvious to people who are not aware of it.
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Boy am I glad I don’t have kids. They wouldn’t have to witness that dystopian future
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So that would mean no website would be allowed to use encryption/https if that law passes, including banking websites(and Google, Youtube, etc.) or are they aiming for end-to-end encryption on chat apps so that they can more easily “catch criminals and terrorists”?
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They are glad you don’t have kids, too.
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Practically speaking that means:
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It has nothing to do with criminals.
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It’s the desire to have the transparency on the level of North Korea (all connections are unencrypted)
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They can’t possibly “ban” encryption, but they can make it illegal.
Oi mate!
Is this a Signal messenger on your phone?! Do you have a looooycense for that?!
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It would be more like “encryption for me, but not for thee”.
You would still have encryption on proprietary services like WhyApp and Goolag, it’s just that the governments would a back door in.
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I wouldn’t feel safe logging into any website over an unencrypted connection, especially banking websites or government websites where personal information can be accessed.
Look at you, you don’t want to fight terrorists and ThiNK oF ThE ChiLDrEN!!!111 
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The EU is working on something similar.
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I hope it doesn’t pass because it would only effect normal citizens privacy and won’t stop criminals or terrorist from using their own encrypted chat apps since they don’t abide to the law anyways. Also they are already over flooded with data and information since they even miss things when things aren’t encrypted or if they already have access to the information.
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But that’s exactly the point! 
Seriously it is.