We aren’t the baddies we are just so concerned with criticism that we are happy to look the other way.

It alludes to the staggering number in the title and in the abstract but does not give the number which means it’s clickbait.

I think he might have been snatched mid-se

If masked government officers are snatching people from the street without any right to a hearing it is late stage totalitarianism and it is just a matter of time before they come for you whoever you are.

If there is going to be fighting he should take his wife.

Iran has recently been reported as failing to meet its nuclear non-proliferation obligations and this is undoubtedly the reason Israel describes these strikes as pre-emptive.

Could this be jealous protection of insider information being sold as altruistic protection of the public.

Let me guess those lawmakers themselves will communicate with uncompromised encryption, it is only everyone else that will require a backdoor making all data passing essentially unencrypted. For a second guess let me suggest those lawmakers will not imagine themselves in any way personally responsible for all the data lost by individuals as a result of their proposed measures.

They got Capone for tax evasion.

Harvard, inclusive of Harvard Law School, so they most likely will be able to fathom some sort of legal rebuff to this. And a very large proportion of the top rungs the entire legal structure of the country will be alumni or have affiliations with Harvard. Is it wise to jump right to the final boss?