The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic societies

Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by ben_w on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:43AM (#35324681)

Public figures kinda need to be narcissistic just to be able to face seeing themselves so much each day. And that includes the good ones.

I'm more worried about the fact that humans are, collectively at least, so hypocritical.

For the following examples, bare in mind that neither I nor the general public understand the actual laws, so any nits you pick need to be the kind that even a non-lawyer will accept:

I'm old enough to remember Clinton being impeached for lying about his affairs, and yet Republicans (collectively) are defending Trump for lying about affairs.

Or vice versa, Trump's classified documents at home vs. Biden's.

Probably the same elsewhere, but I don't trust that I'm not part of the problem with regard to UK politics (where I'm from), and my German isn't good enough to pay attention to what's happening where I now live.

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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by dsfyu404ed on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:11AM (#35326244)

>I'm more worried about the fact that humans are, collectively at least, so hypocritical.

Humans are violent too. If we tried as hard to train it out of people we'd make good progress.

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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by omniglottal on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:26AM (#35327935)

Violence serves a purpose - although it doesn't serve this purppose well, it stands in place as a last resort. Removing that resort, what do you propose replaces it for the purposes which must be served?

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Re:The chat control proposal does not belong in democratic s... by dsfyu404ed on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @06:07AM (#35338260)

I meant that we could train out hypocrisy the same way we train out most of the violence.

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