Memes

Pro tip: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit which has been defending your right to privacy for many years. If you shop on Amazon, you can give a portion of the purchase price to EFF. You pay the same amount and daddy bezos gets a few less dollars. Use the affiliate link, not the smile link as smile has been sunsetted: https://www.eff.org/node/58741

Anything and everything that politicians propose to protect children, I am automatically against. It doesn't matter how good it sounds, if they say anything about protecting children, I'm opposed to it.

This is because they know that 'protect children' are magic words that let them get away with almost anything, and that's genuinely about the only time they say that anyway. Basically nothing the government does is actually to protect children.

US keeps taking the flame while EU, Bastion of Rights™, just outright banning encryption.

Different departments. It's the 'keep the plebs in line department' that wants to scan your devices.
Where as the 'keep the rich giving us money department' are not actioning the rapist list

Wish I could add a /s to this.

Government:

Or Maxwell's client list...