*Knowing things is possible.* It simply requires that we keep the entities that profit by our confusion poor and thus weak. The thing is, corporations don't *always* lie about regulations. Take the fight over working #encryption, which - once again - the UK government is trying to ban: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/24/signal-app-warns-it-will-quit-uk-if-law-weakens-end-to-end-encryption 28/