Are we going backwards in digital freedom?

I've noticed, partly in this sub itself, that the no. of privacy intrusive bills and laws are on the rise. Regulating E2EE, requiring identification on a lot more website (meta going as far as testing legal verification), buisness models completely based on ads, actively trying to track users on anonymizing networks, DDoSing Tor, trying to regulate crypto and a lot more.

At least privacy advocates and foundations still try and invent new technologies to battle this. But overall, is our …

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