I absolutely don't understand how anyone can support this in the context of rising authoritarianism. Even people in my country which are talking about this phenomena support it. I strongly suspect that they do absolutely know shit about why it's problematic.

I wonder if they would support that every of paper mail would be opened and checked. I strongly doubt that.

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layer8 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s a symptom of authoritarianism rising. It wouldn’t be rising if there wasn’t anyone who supports things like that.

	▲	hsuduebc2 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That I would understand, but these policies are supported by most liberal politics from my country and opposed by some populists or "strong hand" politicians. I somehow understand that various russian agents are against that, because that can theoretically be used against them but these liberal democrats are somewhat mystery for me.

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stinkbeetle 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Because social cohesion is also breaking down (which is also by design). People increasingly do not trust and can not rely on neighbors and their fellow citizens to share similar interests and look out for one another. And they have much less power to organize with other citizens to petition their government.

So they feel they must turn to the state for protection.