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Blumenthal is a 74 year old millionaire. Is it possible hes just forgotten the fact that hes presently on record as ardently opposed to competent encryption? or has he been lead to co-sponsor FOSTA without being given an honest explanation of what it actually does?

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Blumenthal's position is that creating backdoors doesn't have anything to do with weakening encryption. Considering he's tone deaf enough to actually tweet this it seems more and more plausible that he actually BELIEVES his own vapid bullshit and really is that stupid and ignorant.

Most politicians are dangerous especially due to their irrational fanaticism about whatever they believe. They want to shape the world to be what they believe it should be without actually paying much attention to it.

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