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		nyeah 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords Note the scare quotes around user freedom. Perhaps user freedom is a notorious fake issue, a bizarre misconception, or an exotic concept that nobody understands.

growse 7 months ago [–]

I don't know what "scare quotes" are. They're just regular quotation marks, because I'm quoting.

nyeah 7 months ago | [–]

Sure, I stand corrected, you "don't know" what I'm talking about.

growse 7 months ago | | [–]

Literally no idea.

My point was that freedom is not an absolute, it's balanced against other freedoms. It's hard to tell whether you agree with that or not.

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