It’s referencing the surveillance state, and how, especially more recently, the government (I’m talking about the US, but this does happen with governments in other countries as well) has been attempting to pass more and more bills to give themselves more surveillance power over the internet.
For instance, KOSA, disguised as a bill “protecting kids,” would give the government extreme content censorship powers, which could only be enforced with broken encryption schemes, surveillance of private messages, and government software sometimes running on social media network servers if pushed far enough.
Additionally, the STOP CSAM act, which likely wouldn’t end up stopping CSAM, would effectively make encrypted messaging illegal, and could possibly break the very encryption standards that power the internet, like HTTPS.
This isn’t necessarily a new thing, but governments continue to try and surveil their citizens, and want to make it practically illegal to engage in a conversation (primarily digitally) that isn’t visible to the government at every moment.
Is this even about anything specific?
It’s referencing the surveillance state, and how, especially more recently, the government (I’m talking about the US, but this does happen with governments in other countries as well) has been attempting to pass more and more bills to give themselves more surveillance power over the internet.
For instance, KOSA, disguised as a bill “protecting kids,” would give the government extreme content censorship powers, which could only be enforced with broken encryption schemes, surveillance of private messages, and government software sometimes running on social media network servers if pushed far enough.
Additionally, the STOP CSAM act, which likely wouldn’t end up stopping CSAM, would effectively make encrypted messaging illegal, and could possibly break the very encryption standards that power the internet, like HTTPS.
This isn’t necessarily a new thing, but governments continue to try and surveil their citizens, and want to make it practically illegal to engage in a conversation (primarily digitally) that isn’t visible to the government at every moment.
Look up Europe Chat Control for example.
Or the crypto wars of the '90s.