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Re:India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship by captainbland on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:11AM (#19169751)
There's a sort of paradox of democracy which analogous to the paradox of tolerance. The problem is that you can elect people who destroy democratic institutions. i.e. you can democratically destroy democracy. If you tolerate those who would destroy democratic institutions, eventually those who would destroy democracy will get voted in and democracy will be destroyed - you therefore do have to limit democratic freedoms slightly to exclude those people if you wish to preserve democracy itself.
Re:India Proposes Chinese-Style Internet Censorship by sbmthakur on Friday February 15, 2019 @12:46PM (#19172972)
I think that's where the concept of the Republic and the Constitution come into play. For example, if the Constitution places a limit on the number of terms of a rogue Government then it is not possible to elect them again. Of course this assumes that amending Constitution is either impossible or quite difficult.