Oppose the Earn IT Act
If you want to convince your friends they should support encryption, here&#x27;s how I like to get past the &quot;nothing to hide&quot; argument.<p>Imagine we&#x27;re sitting at a bar, chatting. None of us have anything to hide. Then the government passes a law that all conversations must be streamed on Youtube Live, so an agent comes in, sets up a camera at our table, and starts streaming.<p>We still don&#x27;t &quot;have anything to hide&quot;. We&#x27;re just having a conversation. But the conversation used to be private--that&#x27;s normal. Now it&#x27;s not private, which is not normal.<p>Whether or not you feel like you have to &quot;hide&quot; anything during a bar conversation is not the point. It&#x27;s whether you think we should make changes to our society where having a private conversation is never allowed.<p>This kind of analogy, in my experience, helps people understand that the &quot;nothing to hide&quot; argument assumes that privacy is only for evil people, when in reality it&#x27;s the very normal default of daily life. The parable posted in another top-level comment is also great.