1. Perception of Surveillance “The average person doesn’t think anything much. They receive the meme, they transmit the meme.” — cucumber3732842
Even when people claim safety, the underlying belief is often just a meme, not genuine understanding.
2. Authoritarian Surveillance Agenda
“It’s one of those ‘create the infrastructure for stasi 2.0’ the Epstein elite tries to periodically ram down our throats…” — pydry
The proposal is framed as a top‑down effort to build a surveillance state, not a democratically driven safety measure.
3. Distrust of Privacy‑Focused Services
“Signal just can’t be trusted at this point. They’re probably compromised. [...] the very first line of their privacy is a lie saying that it’s designed to never collect or store sensitive data when they keep a list of your contacts forever in the cloud…” — autoexec
Even supposedly privacy‑centric tools are seen as unreliable and potentially compromised.
4. Technical Controls as Power Consolidation “The difference is who controls it. If you want to set up secure boot with your own keys, good on you, go for it.” — trumpdong
Control over mechanisms like secure boot and attestation concentrates power in corporations or governments rather than users.