Math will carry us through. It’s not like we need to experiment to know what works and will keep people free. We don’t need to sit in a room together to plot a Declaration and then a Constitution and then experiment with democracy.
We’re already there. We know how to mask packet travel. We know high encryption works. We know low bit encryption is breakable and that some of the popular algorithms are untrustworthy. We can make up new algorithms if we have to. Because of this, whoever they are at any one time: they can’t take away our freedom of expression and they can’t take away our freedom to assemble.
Sure, they will try to associate ALL of us with the few who use these powers to do evil, but we can still work together for what’s right and good and deflect these criticisms by always working towards a high ideal. They haven’t by any stretch “won”. And they’ll never win, as long as we don’t give up.
