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Re:ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is... by potato3732842 on Sunday September 14, 2025 @03:44PM (#45242661)
The state itself.

Any shred of rights or privacy has reduces it's ability and/or increases the cost of it doing what it deems worth doing.

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Re:ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is... by spit2wind on Sunday September 14, 2025 @04:17PM (#45242886)
This is a meme I see and don't fully understand. It seems to assume that the state isn't a democracy, yet the statement is usually applied to democracies like the US. Such statements don't make sense to me when it's the people who are the state, not some "other".
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Re:ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is... by sunshowers on Sunday September 14, 2025 @04:23PM (#45242933)
This is a classic principal-agent problem. The people are not the state in electoral/representative democracies, they merely elect agents that have their own beliefs and motivations.
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Re:ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is... by pessimizer on Sunday September 14, 2025 @05:32PM (#45243420)
The public have no effect on public policy in the US: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714001595
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Re:ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is... by ExoticPearTree on Monday September 15, 2025 @01:55AM (#45246540)
The individual needs and the “needs of the state” are two very distinct things.
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Re:ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is... by hungmung on Sunday September 14, 2025 @03:47PM (#45242682)
The state is a lecher.
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