It is the dream of every tyrant: to hold all power over others’ property and resources, to know all things about others while entrenching government privacy, and to kill all who resist.
Now a group of power-gorged U.S. Senators are pushing (again) for a bill to ban (private-sector) encryption. See here.
The king’s keys must unlock all doors. All must be naked before the state.
Of course, America is still ostensibly a democratic republic, and the American people have been voting for more freedom-friendly senators for years. Yet the votes of the people seem pointless.
