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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

How governments design laws against you and call it cybersecurity

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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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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 […]

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

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  • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au
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    There are people laws bind and people laws protect.

    Never both. Which one are you?

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world
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      Ghislaine Maxwell develops class consciousness

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

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    Don’t trust any government. Period.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      I‘m not sure if Democracy can survive with that sentiment but I‘m also not sure if it can survive without it.

      • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au
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        Democracy does not need government. Works better without it.

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

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

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