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[RainDog]

98. This gets to larger issues

Do not want a "guilty until proven innocent" policy regarding privacy.

Don't want future presidents to have this power.

AND

What this issue also gets to is protections for citizens in general.

People try to argue this is a non-issue by noting how much data various companies have and how people are targeted for ads (and how this, too, can be used in ways that cause harm.)

...so, it's not just govt. use of data - it's also about some regulations to protect citizens from private entities as well.

But THE most important aspect of this is the way that people who want to DO GOOD but are outside of the power structure will be and are and have been targeted throughout U.S. history - and those people, overwhelmingly, have been more liberal than their govt.

So, giving a license because of the fear of those who do bad also allows authoritarians to target those who do good.

And those are the people who need to be protected.