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Do you care so little about personal liberty that you'll allow anyone to erode it as long as they say they're doing it "for the children"?

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I think we’re a pretty innovative generation and we can build technologies that strike a careful balance between protecting personal liberties and keeping our children safe. Both are highly important.

The ‘all or nothing’ ‘here comes the 1984 dystopia’ argument is fear mongering. Let’s give Apple a chance and see if they can pull it off.

The issue is not what people will do today. The issue is what future generations will do. Are you comfortable with handing the keys to complete dystopia over to people who haven't even been born yet?

Future generations will inherit a very different world with new challenges, and this is the very least of them. It wasn’t that long ago biometrics were being called the doorway to dystopia and the mark of the devil. Now fingerprint scanners and facial recognition hardware is in every device and we all benefit from the convenience. Apple didn’t create an online database of our faces and fingerprints and give it to the US government so everywhere we go and everything we touch gets recorded forever. Why would they need to when we all posted our photographs on Facebook for the world to download anyway? See you’re actually dealing with superstition and prophecy of doom. Those memetic structures rely on genetic behavioral traits derived from when religious influence created selective pressure. Those psychological hooks are being commandeered by stories/memes that mimic superstition and religion. So I’m saying you don’t have objectivity.

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