I’m sorry, these guys want guaranteed privacy for all their secret underground calls that they have with other CEOs so that can plot against politicians and others with impunity, and yet these same companies are actively working to remove any privacy that normal citizens have?
>These laws exist to promote free thought. They punish those who seek to pry into our most private spaces and turn America into a place like East Germany.
If you're going to argue that journalists blowing the whistle on the private conversations of the ultra-rich and powerful about how to reign in journalism with the Stasi, that's a great recipe for getting people sold on the idea that privacy itself is a tool used by the powerful to escape scrutiny.
I don’t think I have any pity for them.