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Re:Italian Data Protection Authority Clamps Down ChatGPT by segasaturn on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:05PM (#35391812)
People sometimes conflate being a single-party state with being a dictatorship/totalitarianism. Japan is considered a model democracy and has been run by the same party for over 70 years! It's just another way of doing democracy, there's no one size fits all approach to it.
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Re:Italian Data Protection Authority Clamps Down ChatGPT by int_19h on Friday March 31, 2023 @04:05PM (#35392786)
Er, who considers Japan a model democracy outside of Japan?

And yes, democracy can be authoritarian as well. The problem is that if the government controls public discourse to a sufficient extent, any democracy becomes a sham no matter how fair elections themselves are.

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