Re:EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video]
by int_19h on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:36PM
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I grew up in the USSR.
The government that replaced it, did so on the promise of democracy and liberalism. It took less than 10 years for that all to go down the drain.
And then we've all seen 9/11 and what happened in liberal democracies after that, when various far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation was rushed through, and then routinely used by law enforcement in completely unrelated matters.
This entire argument - that Western governments are somehow exempt from the curse of corrupting power, and therefore letting them centralize more and more is not a problem - has already been disproven experimentally.
The government that replaced it, did so on the promise of democracy and liberalism. It took less than 10 years for that all to go down the drain.
And then we've all seen 9/11 and what happened in liberal democracies after that, when various far-reaching anti-terrorism legislation was rushed through, and then routinely used by law enforcement in completely unrelated matters.
This entire argument - that Western governments are somehow exempt from the curse of corrupting power, and therefore letting them centralize more and more is not a problem - has already been disproven experimentally.