Privacy is a human right

Before you talk about abuse of minors on the Internet, please be so kind as to talk about the parents that let their kids on the Internet in the first place.

Cause some of them be wilding, why is a kid in possession of a social media account? Why? Then unfortunately these kids get led wrong and the dumb parents come out and cry foul, will the lion not devour the sheep not looked after? I feel sorry for the kids, but as for the parents, these ones shouldn't be considered proper guardians.

Crazy world we live in.

But that aside, this post isn't about minor assault but our government, yes, the ones you and I voted in.

So why did I briefly and weirdly talk about minors and assault? Because our governments are using this as leverage to fuck up our privacy online, for good!

Halpin highlighted recent efforts in the UK to mandate companies include a "backdoor" in their encryption technologies under the pretense of safeguarding minors from online predators— something Halpin called dangerous.

On Tuesday, UK officials urged Meta not to institute end-to-end encryption without “safety measures to protect children from sexual abuse,” according to a Reuters report after the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Bill. Decrypt

When it comes to things that grant humanity a sense of freedom from the establishment, there's always a plot to fuck it up. The cryptocurrency ecosystem is currently undergoing an intense attack with the guise of "oh your investors expect to make money so your shit is a security" well is there any investment one goes into without the hopes of making money?

What I find comical is how this establishment has grown to where it decides what we are to invest in and what not to. So you sue a project, its assets dumps in value, wrecking the investors you are supposedly protecting, then if the project managers bend over for you, you gain a fine, why does that fine not go to the investors that this investment scammed into buying unregistered securities? Why should you be the one to hold onto it?

I sincerely struggle to see the reasons.

Now were using "minors" as a ploy to end user privacy

The government is currently trying to force Web2 social platforms to build backdoors to their encryption protocols that will allow the establishment to decrypt messages of whoever at any time.

Now, the reason for this as quoted above is supposedly to protect "minors" from online assault.

This quickly made me remember something I read about WhatsApp once, let me see if I can find it…

Yes, found it.

As per p2p encryptions, WhatsApp was always encrypted but not end-to-end or p2p. WhatsApp supposedly transitioned to end-to-end encryption in the wake of governments demanding that the company hand in its encryption key, to access user messages over the idea that terrorists used the app to communicate before and during attacks.

This move makes WhatsApp messages only accessible by the sending and receiving parties that neither the government nor WhatsApp itself can access them, supposedly. icoverage.io

So the article above exposes how WhatsApp transitioned over the years of being acquired by Meta and it shows that this isn't actually the first time the government has attempted earning backdoors to social network's encryptions.

As with WhatsApp, they previously used the idea that "terrorists" were using this application to communicate, lmao, really Joe? Terrorists? So because of your supposed terrorists that I can guarantee are funded by the same establishment, you want to break the privacy of everyone on the network?

That's hella crazy.

Everything these people think of includes new ways to control us, they want it all, our finances, our lives, the information we can access, everything.

So now, this should not be allowed, if any Web2 social platform bends for this, I can guarantee crypto/web3 alternatives will start earning some attention. I mean, there are already some functional Web3 alternatives to WhatsApp.

We don't need to be building backdoors to encrypting protocols if we are truly after protecting minors, what we need is some damn parent education to keep their kids off spaces where they can be taken advantage of by some wicked humans.

A minor should not have access to a lot of things, but look how technology has spoiled us, a kid is now on the Internet without parental guidance and surely seeing every damn dark shit I see as I scroll and now the government what to use that as leverage to screw our privacy over?

Not a chance.