Post #2596929
2026-05-11 22:26 UTC
I almost wonder whether these regulations exist not to protect data, but to lull the public into a sense of complacency. Perhaps that's a tad conspiratorial, but so many laws exist to make legislators look good rather than serve their purported raison d'etre - just look at that OS-based age verification nonsense. At the very least, the national security state has a use for such things, regardless.
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@Maeve@kbin.earth 2026-05-11 22:32
Fwiw, I got my first _physical_ tinfoil hat from a friend warning about the debt crisis the USA was creating a year or so before "too big to fail." I got a few e-tinfoil hats in the preceding decades. Conspiracy hypotheses aren't necessarily bad, although plenty certainly are. It's just another term to silence dissidents.