Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo...
by jcromartie on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:29AM
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Which countries would those be? I'm really on the fence at the moment, between becoming active in trying to change politics for the better, or just packing up and going somewhere that doesn't spy on literally everybody and throw you in jail over a stupid joke or rap song on facebook.
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Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo...
by cpursley on Saturday June 29, 2013 @09:44AM
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Well, it depends on your political preference. Strong social liberty or strong economic liberty or something in between? It depends on what's important to you.
Economic Freedom: http://www.heritage.org/index/
Democracy Index: https://portoncv.gov.cv/dhub/porton.por_global.open_file?p_d...
Human Development Index: http://hdr.undp.org/hdr4press/press/outreach/figures/HDI_Tre...
Gun Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/gunindex.html
Press Freedom: http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2013,1054.html
Drug Freedom: http://www.freeexistence.org/drugindex.html
Various other stats: http://www.eiu.com/default.aspx
Just notice the trends - which countries are you seeing at the tops of most of the lists?
Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo...
by vacri on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:32AM
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It's curious that you mention libertarianism in your first comment, but the leaders in most of those lists are the social democracies.
Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo...
by cpursley on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:49AM
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Just providing options. Personally, I'm skewed towards economic freedom.
Re:Why discussions on cyber snooping have been so painful fo...
by vacri on Saturday June 29, 2013 @11:18AM
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Sure, though there are plenty of small government countries out there that aren't hell-holes (eg Vanuatu). It's just that social democracy is really quite philosophically different to libertarianism - the underlying ethos being 'everyone gets support' instead of 'every man for himself'.