And if we can’t tell for sure, it’s stupid to start pointing fingers. If you don’t have the facts, reading your (general) own narrative into her very short statement and presenting that as the objective truth is irrational. That’s how conspiracy theories are made.

Personally, it sounds like the person on top is recommending backdoors to “protect the children,” and Whittaker is rightly pointing out that that’s a stupid take, given who is in charge in various governments and the dumb reasons many of them have used as justification for implementing backdoors.

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