Spot on. And further more, any appeals to safety from politicians should be shouted down as the misdirection that they are.
The root of 99% of crime in the US is poverty. Not private communication.
Trying to solve poverty by spying on everyone’s data is like trying to cure cancer with Tylenol. Even if you temporarily prevent a symptom from occurring, you're still dying of cancer.
So much of political thought in the US is focused on the futile efforts of treating symptoms, and not curing underlying causes.
And the worst part is, if you look at statistics in the rest of the developed world, poverty in fact has a cure! Like in most things, the US is the head-in-the-sand stubborn outlier here.
The root of 99% of crime in the US is poverty. Not private communication.
Trying to solve poverty by spying on everyone’s data is like trying to cure cancer with Tylenol. Even if you temporarily prevent a symptom from occurring, you're still dying of cancer.
So much of political thought in the US is focused on the futile efforts of treating symptoms, and not curing underlying causes.
And the worst part is, if you look at statistics in the rest of the developed world, poverty in fact has a cure! Like in most things, the US is the head-in-the-sand stubborn outlier here.