Really this is entirely about Facebook and the Federal government, with everyone else left as spectators. I suspect the people at NCMEC feel just as blindsided as the pro-encryption advocates by the sudden lurch in this debate
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I would frame the question this way: who gets to make sudden, sweeping changes in encryption policy affecting societies around the world? Right now the answer is "Mark Zuckerberg" and that is an even worse answer than the Trump administration, which is a terrible answer
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Who would you propose in his stead? William Barr? Xi Jinping?
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Replying to @matthew_d_green @ncweaver
Yes. But both William Barr and Xi Jinping together, for balance.
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The serious answer is that we, as a society, had a lot of democratic debates about this. The solution we enshrined into law (see CALEA) allows providers to encrypt data. This was all pre-Zuckerberg, so he had nothing to do with it. That was our decision.
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What Mark Zuckerberg (and really it was Acton and Koum) did was, on a *single popular service*, build a system that complied with the laws as written.
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Now, obviously, actually having people do a thing we voted democratically to keep legal, does not mean we’ll like the results. Maybe Congress will try to change the law: they’ve shown no inclination to do so, but nobody is stopping them. Not even Zuck.
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If your concern is that someone enabling an encrypted service in America (where it’s legal) is unfriendly to other countries, there’s a simple answer for those countries. China has deployed it very effectively.
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I'm concerned about people in places where these questions can be a matter of life and death having no say in decisions made by Chad and Brad over in Menlo Park. I do wish you'd stop waving China at me; have I not done enough to prove my bona fides on hating Chinese repression?
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Ok, could I wave Brazil at you? They’ve also proven that they have the technical capability to block WhatsApp.https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2016/07/19/whatsapp-blocked-in-brazil-again/amp/ …
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Completely fine with Brazil-waving
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