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https://dt.gl/chat-control-what-it-is-what-it-isnt-and-how-you-should-react/
Check this out, it's not as bad as you think it is.
It is, actually. The reason:
Little by little, we're loosing ground. Temporary often means permanent. They'll go with bullshit like "the measure has been proven very effective, we decided to make it permanent for [insert here emotional reasons]" (this is for the media) and then show some biased data.