I suspect a lot of the ‘privacy’ excuses that various agencies use to make things difficult are ultimately bogus. But that too is an opportunity cost of setting up too many rules. Saying that it isn’t is something of a ‘no true Scotsman’ argument.

Let’s just agree to disagree. I’m not particularly set in my ways about this issue, but I don’t think you’ve convinced me yet. Luckily, the decision isn’t up to me. But I still am going to use opposition to Bill C-2 as a means of introducing the points I want to raise in the second article on this subject–which I am convinced are important.

As an aside, I just want to mention how civil this conversation has been. It reinforces my feeling that there’s no need for social media to be so damn divisive–it’s just that the private sector systems are designed to encourage outrage and fear. Yeah Lemmy! Yeah Fediverse!