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Protecting the privacy of citizens is not akin to society-wide censorship, a la China. This is a disingenuous argument.


But it infringes on my freedom to get spied on by shady companies and their government!


Kind of. I'm still losing my ability to choose.

I've often found the slippery slope 'Fallacy' to not be so much of a fallacy in reality when it comes to power.


Yep, next to be banned is fake news articles, then entire sites that contain some fake news articles, then sites that contain links to other sites that have fake news....

[Edit] for clarity


“Slippery Slope” is only a fallacy when you can’t reasonably draw a line from the proposed idea to the “dangerous” end result.


And yet requires a similar solution.....




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