Re:Europe Needs Digital Public Spaces That Are Independently...
by peoplefromibiza on Thursday April 27, 2023 @09:20AM
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In US you can go to jail for being black or not following police officers orders or responding to them in a way they do not like, or talking to them, or taking pictures of them.
And they can shoot you.
Just like any authoritarian police state.
EDIT: freedom of speech is not related only to offending the president or saying good things about Hitler, it also mean I can talk and eventually argue with a police officer in EU without worrying that they will arrest me or shoot me. It means I can take a picture of a firemen's truck without the camera being seized by the police (it happened to me in Florida) and no way of talking to them that there's no need to abuse of their power, you can actually delete photos from cameras.
etc etc
authoritarianism and control works best when it's not in the law, but in the people habits.
And they can shoot you.
Just like any authoritarian police state.
EDIT: freedom of speech is not related only to offending the president or saying good things about Hitler, it also mean I can talk and eventually argue with a police officer in EU without worrying that they will arrest me or shoot me. It means I can take a picture of a firemen's truck without the camera being seized by the police (it happened to me in Florida) and no way of talking to them that there's no need to abuse of their power, you can actually delete photos from cameras.
etc etc
authoritarianism and control works best when it's not in the law, but in the people habits.