[HN Gopher] Privacy and freedom should be the legacy we leave
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       Privacy and freedom should be the legacy we leave
        
       Author : favourable
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-10-22 18:15 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | mildmotive wrote:
       | >we ought to respect minors enough to allow them secure and
       | encrypted communications with one another, without the prying
       | eyes of bigoted parents
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       | "bigoted parents"? Who are you refering to, FSF?
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       | It's the parents' right to raise their children to adhere to any
       | religious beliefs or ideologies, even those you do not agree
       | with! Regardless, it's not your job to dictate how parents should
       | raise their children.
       | 
       | Although a relationship of trust and respect of privacy should be
       | established between a parent and their child, this should not be
       | taken to an extreme. The internet can be quite wild, it's
       | neglectful to let your child consume whatever content they come
       | across and speak to whomever they like. It's a parent's job to
       | set healthy limits to these things. This does involve keeping a
       | healthy culture of openness in the home, which contradicts the
       | notion of privacy (from their "bigoted parents") that you're
       | advocating children should have.
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       | I am a privacy advocate myself, and am against mass-surveillance
       | by the state. Here is the problem though: pedophiles and groomers
       | do exist. The way we mitigate this problem is not by giving the
       | tyrants more power, it's by empowering parents by providing them
       | with the tools to limit exposure to these threats. This gives
       | power to the (bigoted lol) parents to filter out the bad and keep
       | as much good as possible.
       | 
       | The companies that are bribing tyrants to partake in the
       | surveillance system should have their leadership thrown in
       | prison. The companies that provide solutions for us to protect
       | our children should be rewarded and praised.
        
         | josephcsible wrote:
         | Yeah, I agree with the FSF almost everywhere, but not here.
         | Minors do not and should not have the right to communication
         | that's private _from their own parents_.
        
       | lookagain wrote:
        
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