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Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by s_kilk on Friday May 05, 2017 @05:51AM (#14272251)
> until we become a socialist (possibly communist) state

The word you're looking for is "totalitarian", not socialist.

This Red Scare preoccupation with socialism as the ultimate evil is, frankly, laughable.

Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by eehee on Friday May 05, 2017 @08:10AM (#14272787)
Could you point me towards any examples of "good" socialism?
Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by shawabawa3 on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:15AM (#14274025)
The healthcare system of every developed country except the USA
Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by eehee on Friday May 05, 2017 @02:32PM (#14275713)
You don't really need socialism for proper health care. Almost all of the countries you're referring to are solidly capitalist economies.
Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by matt4077 on Friday May 05, 2017 @04:59PM (#14276804)
They are, but their health care systems are everywhere on the scale from textbook socialism to capitalism-with-lots-of-rules. The UK's NHS, for example, employs the doctors, paid out of general government revenue, and provides otherwise-free health care.
Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by matt4077 on Friday May 05, 2017 @05:03PM (#14276839)
That's not the point. The GP's error was calling the policy in question "socialism". It is not. Even if socialism->bad were always true, that doesn't imply the reverse, i. e. bad->socialism.

Spying on citizen has historically been used by every non-democratic regime, from the right-wing fascists to left-wing communists and west-wing Nixons.

Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by 45h34jh53k4j on Friday May 05, 2017 @11:15AM (#14274027)
Re:Leaked document reveals UK plans for wider internet surve... by eehee on Friday May 05, 2017 @02:28PM (#14275674)
Social democracy is not socialism.