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RE: The US 'Earn It' Act Pressures For an End To Online Encryption - In the Name of Child Safety! It Looks To Be Just Another Power Grab.

in #politics • 5 years ago

Ah, yes - I agree. I wrote a post that even I thought was profound a while ago on STEEM that talked about this and why the belief that 'power corrupts' is one that 'the establishment' would want as many as possible to buy into! What a plot twist!

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    I'm not sure if you read this post https://peakd.com/hive-153630/@matrix-8/welcome-to-new-age-dapps-a-solution-to-what-ails-us in which John writes:

    .... which Lord Acton explained to us with such succinct and memorable brevity: Power corrupts – and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely. This has been true forever, and therefore should be no surprise. But, there is a very pertinent corollary to this truth, which has been unstated, and therefore uninspected; and it has been misshaping the daily lives of humankind for the last 10,000 years – ever since the advent of Civilization with its God-Kings. That corollary is this: Top-down Power Structures create Criminal Leaders.

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