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Exactly. 'I have nothing to hide' is the surrender of a free mind.
Privacy isn't about hiding crimes. It's about preventing power from knowing everything — before it decides what you're allowed to think, say, or be.
This is the core of Chat Control 2.0: not protecting children, but normalizing total surveillance.
The lie is not just dumb. It's the foundation of the new control.