Comments on: The genie is out of the bottle – it’s foolish to think encryption can now be banned /2016/01/18/the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle-its-foolish-to-think-encryption-can-now-be-banned/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:00:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 By: seth edenbaum /2016/01/18/the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle-its-foolish-to-think-encryption-can-now-be-banned/comment-page-1/#comment-839090 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:52:27 +0000 /?p=18716#comment-839090 “Encryption creates trust.” No. Encryption is predicated on its lack.
Warrants are predicated on the right of a community to police itself. What happens when they’re useless?
Paypal’s Peter Thiel writing at Cato: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Debates over encryption have devolved into arguments between anarcho-capitalists and Stalinists calling for “full communism”.

I like communities, but we live in them whether we like it or not. It’s a matter of admitting it.
Montesquieu says somewhere that the more laws a society has the weaker its social bonds become.
Republicanism is not Liberalism. I blame Locke and John Rawls for everything.
We’re on the road to hell.

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