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1. Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 21:00:38 JST Moon
   The name that keeps coming up in all this Chat Control stuff is Thorn. it gets money from organizations that get money from the government. "Who is funding these organizations that are attacking privacy" you want to keep speculating that it's advertisers and data brokers, but no it's your goverments, Matt.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 21:25:15 JST Moon

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     I picked ONE organization at random involved with this, this isn't a cherry-picked example.
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 21:25:16 JST Moon

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     This money is all being laundered through over 60 separate organizations, who probably get money from other organizations, this is all very convoluted, but I can guarantee you they all get government grants.
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   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 21:25:16 JST Moon

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     As an example, "Save the Children" is one of the organizations that is part of the coalition trying to backdoor encryption. It brings in over a billion dollars a year. Here's its institutional donors list, in the attached image. Mostly government.
     
     Here's another observation: privacy advocates like to say that "nothing is actually being done to help children" but you look and a lot of these organizations in fact do tons of work to materially help children all over the world. Tech liberals are going to have to come to terms with the fact that big, important child welfare organizations just plain want to take away your privacy, it's not all just a big front for data brokers or something, who don't care about kids at all.
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   • Dumb Idiot Retard (idiot@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 21:25:27 JST Dumb Idiot Retard

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     @Moon That's the best part: if the government was working, the advertisers and data brokers would be out on their ass at the back of the unemployment line. Not only is it government's fault it's a problem in the first place, but that hand washes the other and encourages these bottom feeders to thrive.
   • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖟𝖎𝖊 (ic3l9@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 23:44:44 JST 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖟𝖎𝖊

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     @Moon i can guarantee you that nearly all advocacy orgs for anything work like this, because it is simply cheaper for businesses to sweettalk politicians into using public funds for their astroturfing campaigns than it is to fund them yourself. and if you have the personal integrity of someone like UvdL then you will spend your "grant money" on shit that benefits your benefactors and not some stupid boring real issue.
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