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Solution, perhaps, is equally persistent opposition.-


But that's a problem. People get tired of having to fight against the same thing over and over and over.

Put another way, we have to successfully oppose things like this every single time it comes up. But the people pushing it just have to win once.


Well then again, we've been fighting against tyranny for thousands of years and things have slowly gotten better. There are always new people, new generations, prepared to fight for the same thing their parents did and they are not tired.


Put that way, it sounds a lot like infosec ...

(I'd humbly posit, however, that - even at worst - even if those promoting this were to win, it does not necesarily follow that any legislative/regulatory change is "irreversible" ...

... so contrarian persistence might still be warranted).-


Opposition needs public support.

The public, in general, gets tired of repeated messages.

I suspect their motivation to pass orwellian laws are higher than the public's resiliency.


The public is always changing; one generation will age out, while another joins the fray.


They're insisting on such proposals on a yearly basis. I suspect they'll intensify the frequency from now on. They can saturate the current generation's resiliency threshold until the proposal is passed.




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