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11 days

How governments design laws against you and call it cybersecurity

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1330873/how-governments-design-laws-against-you-and-call-it-cybersecurity

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    How governments design laws against you and call it cybersecurity - SMEX
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    You write something online. Nothing heroic. Nothing controversial. A joke about the electricity that never works or a sarcastic comment on a minister’s speech. Weeks later, your phone rings. There is a law you’re being held accountable under, and there’s a good chance it has the word “cybercrime” in the title, which is strange because […]
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    • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
      11 days

      Don’t trust any government. Period.

        • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11 days

          I‘m not sure if Democracy can survive with that sentiment but I‘m also not sure if it can survive without it.

            • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11 days

              Democracy relies on transparency and verification, not trust. Any government official who tries to keep secrets from the public is an enemy of the People.

                • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  11 days

                  You need some trust I think. You wouldn‘t really need elections if everything was fact based and that would cause distrust.

                    • Frettchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
                      11 days

                      You give power to someone that is the trust they got. Nothing less but also nothing more!

                  • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.auEnglish
                    11 days

                    Democracy does not need government. Works better without it.

                • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.auEnglish
                  11 days

                  There are people laws bind and people laws protect.

                  Never both. Which one are you?

                  Edit: if you’re not sure, have grok generate you some particularly bad kiddie porn, then send it to yourself and cc your local chief of police.

                    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
                      11 days

                      Ghislaine Maxwell develops class consciousness

                      I’m just joking, she already has it, along with the other billionaires

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