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Talkingpoints
general concerns
The most common arguments against privacy and the use of good crypto are often called the “Four Horsemen of the infocaypse” Because the are not rational arguments but playing with the fear of people.
Nothing to hide
logical fallacies: good people have nothing to fear, I don't need privacy,only bad people hide things,I don't need to encrypt
We need to understand that this statement is caused by the propaganda logic of “only bad people hide things” and “good people are not victims of surveillance”.Both assumptions are wrong, but never the less widely accepted. When people are say “I've got nothing to hide” they are really saying “I'm a good person”.
We don't need people to believe that they are bad people, we don't need them to believe they need to live in fear. We need people to believe that privacy is good and that they can do something .
Terror
Accusation: privacy and crypto enable Terror
logical fallacies: surveillance can stop Terror, privacy causes Terror
Truth:
Definition of Terror :Terror, is […] a policy of political repression and violence intended to subdue political opposition.
Source
Surveillance itself is Terror. all civil rights enable people to do things. freedom of speech enables you to lie. So should we abolish that?
Child abuse
Accusation: privacy and crypto enable child abuse logical fallacy: surveillance stops child abuse truth: police needs tools like Tor to find people that spread images of child abuse.
crime in general
Accusation: privacy, and crypto enable crimes logical fallacy: surveillance stops crimes and helps to find criminals, if we just had enogh sorveillance there would be no crime
files,facts and data
declaration of human rights constitions: of europe, America
please add links to material like studies that show that data-retention is useless, the cost of surveillance, examples of innocent beeing spyed on ect.
dirty tricks
be prepared for dirty tricks of the dark side of the force
no one cares
We commonly see the media and officials making statements like “the public does not care about privacy” or similar.