Re:It’s not easy to control police use of tech, even with a law
by djbebs on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:13PM
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What does being elected or not have to do with it? Violent mobs also have democratic legitimacy, but somehow I doubt you'll think they should have a right to harass you.
And on the contrary, it is by making the situation unbearable for everyone that popular and political will to change a broken system is created.
The worst thing that can happen is for an injustice to be prolonged just because it only affects a select group of people that those in power dislike.
Re:It’s not easy to control police use of tech, even with a law
by zepto on Thursday September 30, 2021 @05:44AM
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> Violent mobs also have democratic legitimacy,
No they don’t.
> And on the contrary, it is by making the situation unbearable for everyone that popular and political will to change a broken system is created.
When has that ever worked?
> If it's simple to harass someone that way, then making it available to everyone will increase the need to fix a broken system where people can be arbitrarily harassed.
Making a broken system worse does increase the need to fix it, but it doesn’t mean it gets fixed, it just means we have a worse need.