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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by boi_v2 on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:18PM (#6511344)
There is nothing wrong with this, I guess government propaganda is really scaring some people. If it were like this arms manufacturing should be a crime and the billionaires behind those factories should be in jail, you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by saraid216 on Monday October 07, 2013 @05:33PM (#6511428)
> you still live under democracy so government should fear you and not the other way round.

Believe it or not, V for Vendetta is not actually a handbook on how to run a democracy.

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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by thenomad on Monday October 07, 2013 @07:08PM (#6511938)
One could, however, argue that Thomas Jefferson had some valid points on democracies and the running therof. And it's him that V for Vendetta was riffing off:

“A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!”

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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by goblin89 on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:05PM (#6512148)
On the other hand, a point could be made that it's totalitarian regimes where governments are afraid of their citizens (those in fear of losing their powers, especially illegitimately obtained, start suppressing freedoms and surveilling everyone).
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by baddox on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:42PM (#6512268)
Democracy is "rule by the people." You are not "the people," so you should fear democracy.
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by saraid216 on Monday October 07, 2013 @08:57PM (#6512322)
Why is it that most HN politicos have nothing useful to say besides, "Be afraid"?
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by baddox on Monday October 07, 2013 @09:01PM (#6512337)
It might be because there really are things that should be feared, and these people are telling the truth.
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Re:Silk Road 2.0: A concept of a distributed anonymous marke... by saraid216 on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @04:13AM (#6513586)
Why should they be feared?
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