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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by seanw444 on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:26AM (#29510966)
Can't imagine why anyone would want to run to China to hide from the U.S. of all places, in this scenario.

"I'm going to flee from one dystopian state, to another even more dystopian/technocratic/autocratic state!"

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by hekette on Friday December 10, 2021 @11:34AM (#29511852)
It depends on which state is going to imprison you. Being in prison in the U.S. is worse than living out of prison in Chian or Russia.
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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by iechoz6H on Friday December 10, 2021 @10:52AM (#29511300)
I'm not sure technocratic means what you think it means:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/technocr...

i.e it's a net positive to have a technocratic state, deferring decision making to those with the technical skills to do it.

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by ByteJockey on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:51PM (#29513052)
> it's a net positive to have a technocratic state, deferring decision making to those with the technical skills to do it.

Deferring to the technical experts is great when you want to know how to do something.

Deferring to them when you're deciding what to do is not necessarily as good.

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Re:Julian Assange can be extradited to the US, court rules by licebmi__at__ on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:05PM (#29512273)
That's one interpretation. Other one is that a technocracy regime is done IRL to push highly biased and ideological policies on the guise of being the only/best choice by the experts.
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