That is an assumption. The games the powerful play leverage truth and provable things. I think there is a lot of need for privacy and abuse of dragnet information before you get to the government framing people.

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Tadpole9181 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Like January 6th and vaccines causing autism and climate change denial and election rigging and Haitians eating dogs and Venezuela drug boats?

Are you and I living in the same reality? They're constantly just making things up out of nowhere from nothing and refusing to back down. Now to the point of arresting US citizens with a secret police and committing international war crimes in open waters.

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nrhrjrjrjtntbt 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I didn't say people don't lie and do bad shit. Not sure where that came from.

Just because people lie, doesn't mean we need to shrug ok lets just hand over all our private data everywhere.

But I dig ya! What the current US government does is abhorrent.

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hunterpayne 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> Like January 6th and vaccines causing autism and climate change denial and election rigging and Haitians eating dogs and Venezuela drug boats?

That you categorize all of those things in the same boat is very partisan. And it is exactly why a government controlling access to information is a very bad idea. Some of those things aren't real phenomena, others are just over hyped and some are real and very much proven. The news sources you got those opinions from are highly partisan but you trust them implicitly even though you have access to the Internet and can cross check many of them. That you can make such blind mistakes is exactly why elected officials should never control the flow of information. And to give you an example of an opinion that very much matters, consider is nuclear power green or not? The wrong answer about that is doing more damage than your most hated official could ever do.

	▲	Tadpole9181 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Reality isn't partisan. - January 6th was an attempted coup of the government coordinated by Republican interest groups and antagonized by Trump. - Vaccines do not cause autism. - Climate change is real and anthropological in origin. - The 2020 election was not rigged for Biden and there exists no evidence of impropriety of any kind. - Haitians did not eat people's pet dogs in the USA. This was just plain, out-in-the-open racism. - The US military is using the WMD, sorry, I mean the "drug boat" excuse on vessels 1,200 miles away from US waters to execute a dozen people at a time. They are providing no evidence and performing no seizures or investigations. Then they are violating international law and their own documents on war crimes and service member's duty to refuse by having them execute shipwreck survivors. Everything above is a fact. Not an opinion. Not partisan. A fact.

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LinXitoW 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You mean like Epstein? We've got a bunch of truths about rich people and nothing happens.

The fear of an evil government misusing something, more often than not, is a thought terminating cliche. It means we cannot regulate, or create any laws about anything, because evil people could abuse those laws. In reality, evil people do evil shit, irrespective of the laws available for abuse.

	▲	nrhrjrjrjtntbt 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Right... but I don't think I was suggesting anarchy.