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France Says Fight Against Messaging Encryption Needs Worldwide Initiative (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a Reuters report: Messaging encryption, widely used by Islamist extremists to plan attacks, needs to be fought at international level, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Thursday, and he wants Germany to help him promote a global initiative. He meets his German counterpart, Thomas de Maiziere, on Aug. 23 in Paris and they will discuss a European initiative with a view to launching an international action plan, Cazeneuve said. French intelligence services are struggling to intercept messages from Islamist extremists who increasingly switch from mainstream social media to encrypted messaging services, with Islamic State being a big user of such apps, including Telegram. "Many messages relating to the execution of terror attacks are sent using encryption; it is a central issue in the fight against terrorism," Cazeneuve told reporters after a government meeting on security. "France will make proposals. I have sent a number of them to my Germany colleague," he said.
They are elected because intelligent and honest people/republicans)don't put themselves on the ballot list because they know they don't stand a chance of getting elected: A sizeable portion of the electorate believes in fairy tales and uses (expressed) belief in creationism as a litmus test. If you don't want to lie, you don't get elected. If you do have the brains to understand that creationism is nonsense, you don't get elected.
Look at Trump catering to the religious right right now (promising to give christianity power, abolishment of a law that prevents churches from becoming supPACs, Pence).
If you want good politicians, everyone should start speaking up against stupidity instead of respecting opinions and feelings. Value truth instead, use the Golden rule for morals, instead of some book with contorted morals (slavery, misogyny etc.).
Bert
It is a belief system that needs to cease to exist.
How do you suggest we achieve that? Do you think we should just go ahead and kill 25% of the world's population?
Yes
Kicking Muslim citizens already here out will be unconstitutional, but you have not just Democrats, but also too many Republicans arguing that not letting foreign Muslims into the country is unconstitutional. Even though the constitution places no restrictions on who may be let in or who may be kept out. If somebody decided to put in place an immigration policy that would only let in people from Singapore and Japan, it may be bigoted all right, but it certainly wouldn't be unconstitutional.