What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?
What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?
What things that are legal today could become illegal in 50 years?
Dissent
Encryption. For the poors, that is.
It still sounds so insane. Imagine it being illegal for us two to share some public keys. It's like banning fundamental maths
That already exists in one setting, the field of nuclear weapons design. See born secret.
Well okay then, use steganography.
Secure Space Encryptor (https://paranoiaworks.mobi/) is one that I know and they have source code published, although I personally don't understand coding so I can't guarantee how secure it is, but its been out for like a decade and I haven't heard anything bad about it, and its on F-Droid.
They won't know you are secretly sending an encoded "ATTACK AT DAWN" message hidden inside the cute cat photo. (I mean unless they just shut down the entire communications infrastructure and even ban mailing stuff, which is unfeasible because of the economy)
They'll use ai to do pattern matches on available data to assassinate leaders of dissent or those capable of organizing resistance. Knowledge of encryption is uncommon enough of a population to be an acceptable cost.
Private ownership.
Why would you even want this, when you can book it as a service without all the hassles and this highly criminal "privacy". What are you? A drug dealer? A pedophile? Both?
If right-wing nutjobs keep running the government I am going to say "birth control" and "sodomy" are on the chopping block. Hopefully by 50 years this won't still be the issue but its what they want now. Just to note that the old "sodomy" laws made everything that wasn't PIV illegal. So if you like oral sex that will be illegal now. Sorry everyone no more fun
Civillian use of Drones.
I'm very certain there's gonna be a 9/11-like terrorist attack involving drones and then governments all around the world are gonna get extremely paranoid and just ban it unless you get a special permit that only big corporations can get.
Leaving your house without your papers and government issued ID.
I don't usually like SovCits, but like maybe we should really start popularizing SovCit movements. 🤔
Or, you know, just being alive without them.
Cash. Every transaction will be online, so it can be tracked
Free expression, freedom of speech. Privacy. Home ownership.
I don't think americans will have to wait 50 years :(
What do you mean by the home ownership piece?
The billionaires paying for campaign contributions of most politicians in modern democracies (seem to) want to get back to having "company towns" for each of the business they own.
Private equity figured out that the 2008 panic happened because people were defaulting on mortgages. So they just went straight into the housing market as landlords. They’ll eventually lobby congress to make it illegal for the poor to own housing
you think the oligarchs are going to continue letting us own our stuff instead of renting it?
Liberty and privacy. And it will take way less than 50 years.
Being queer 🫠
Living in an "unchristian" way in any form, be it being an atheist, LGBTQ+, etc.
This is what arson is for.
Emulators. There's a crack down that continues to happen as old systems become streaming services.
Unlocking your bootloader
🇪🇺 By October it will be illegal to view porn with an unlocked bootloader
In the US: Not wholly illegal but I predict erosion of the 4th amendment under the guise of keeping the country safe. I predict the definition of a "reasonable" search and seizure will expand.
Across the world: as someone else mentioned, encryption is going to start getting a lot more attention as well.
I also predict erosion of 2nd Amendment for non-whites
You mean like the black panthers and the nra?
LGBTQ+
I'm not any of it, but I do support it.
Being trans, wait you said 50 years not 0.5? Haha lol we're so fucked
Nah we'll win
We got this, and we got eachother.
Breathing.
Who honestly knows at this point in time?
Driving your own car.
But not in a good way. You’re expected to just die.
Disagree on the last part. They want to erode ownership. Driving will be a subscription of some sort.
Poors will be priced out by insurance companies. A large auto manufacturer, probably Tesla will buy one of the enormous insurers and start by offering lower rates for self-driving. Many will sign up and the standard startup playbook will follow. Personal vehicles will become luxury items and then you will be required to subscribe.
I wonder what the poor right will say when they don't own their car anymore?maybe they will have f350 self-driving trucks too and it'll be ok.
Dumping junk in space
The right to read.
I would hope being rich, but I'm not counting on it.
Being poor is already pretty illegal with no signs of changing
Certain food additives.
A lot of activity on the Internet
Owning real estate. Similar to being a “qualified investor” today
Slaughtering animals for food.
The odds of that happening are pretty damned low.
It'd be great, but super unlikely
Just for funsies then?
Positive: ecocide universally accepted as criminal and backed up with meaningfully disincentivising penalties
Negative: being remotely off grid in any way. Probably a symptom of me being British, but I fully expect there to be a point where we're required to be constantly tracked (location, what you consume, what you see, etc) in real time and it'll become a crime to evade it.
Positive: ecocide universally accepted as criminal and backed up with meaningfully disincentivising penalties
I hope so. But I find it hard to believe that enough world leaders are clean to get that thru. So much of what is weird in the news today makes perfect sense if I add these words to the end of the headline: "after a coke binge".
Modifying most things (cars, android ROMs, PCs, etc.) It is right now to an extent but it will probably get worse.
Talking about the mortality of the warlord. Dabbing.
Literally anything given that time period
"The year is 2075. Yesterday was the day the last legal thing became illegal. And what was the last legal thing, you ask? The answer is obvious in retrospect. It was law itself."
Not "everything". Anything.
All the above, but probably in 5 years.
Being queer 🫠
Republicans want to redefine transgenderism as "gender identity fraud". RFK wants to send neurodivergent people to labor camps. You do the math.