Claiming that history is a progression of civil rights losses is a monumentally ...

mmanfrin on March 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again?

Claiming that history is a progression of civil rights losses is a monumentally myopic statement. Recent tumultuous fights over the application and scope of law as it comes to new technology is not an indication of the trend. Human rights and freedoms have progressed hugely in the past centuries.

tobltobs on March 11, 2016 [–]

I think the parent post was meant more in terms of decades than centuries.