Thread by @AlecMuffett

I must say that @nick_clegg has substantially advanced his understanding of the value of encryption, since his days in the coalition, years before @Snowden, performing possibly the LibDems' fastest ever pivot from being procedurally in favour of #CCDP, to profoundly skeptical.

Flashback to 2012 when — caught on the hop — Nick thought that he could spin-away the surveillance / mandatory metadata retention aspects of the "Communications Capabilities Development Program"

aviewfromhamcommon.blogspot.com/2012/04/nick-c…

However it turned out that the LibDems had flatly voted against it at party conference, the month previously:

This led to a rapid volte-face once the party apparatchiks — I believe briefed heavily from the Home Office via Lyn Featherstone — worked out that the party grass roots would genuinely slap them if they didn't push back against the bill:

aviewfromhamcommon.blogspot.com/2012/04/observ…

This may sound ominous, but I'm actually kinda pleased. Having Nick at Facebook means that whatever battles they face, he has already been exposed to a lot of the arguments on both sides.

He's not an utter noob.

Now: it's merely incumbent upon us to ensure that we demand that Facebook, on all of its properties, delivers true #E2EE that is worthy of the name.