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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by indigo945 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @01:52AM (#19631512)
You can't have a policeman in every house, but you can have an Amazon Alexa.

I think the privatization of surveillance is much scarier than the privatization of censorship. To escape the latter, I can just visit my local library, whereas the former is growing at such alarming rates that it might just make that impossible very soon. The chilling effects are real.

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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by Frqy3 on Thursday April 11, 2019 @02:36AM (#19631700)
This is exactly the problem.

Imagine if every single law on the books is enforced 100% of the time. No leeway, no margin for discretion.

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Re:996, GitHub, and China's digital workers rights awakening by unityByFreedom on Thursday April 11, 2019 @03:11AM (#19631836)
No country does that, they just set examples of people who break draconian laws, which is effective as long as you don't count all the people trying to leave the country.
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