Same panic, new target: E2EE backdoor demands vs 'open models threaten humanity'
SuB8u · x · 2026-11-14
A pointed comparison of security panics: back when governments demanded backdoors into end-to-end encryption, the community insisted "encryption protects everyone." Now, the author argues, the same crowd calls open models "a threat to humanity" and questions how they're even allowed.
Tagged with the meme "ctrl-the-code", signaling a stance that code and models should be controlled by those who hold them, not by safety-driven restriction narratives.
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