| ▲ | yubblegum 4 hours ago |
| Why do you think this is only going to be in Europe? This will be the global norm modulo some astroid hitting earth or civilizational crash. The trajectory is crystal clear: access to information (AI), control over personal finance (CBDC), privacy of personal communications (handful of big tech MITM in everything), metered social interactions (today China, tomorrow the world over). |
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| ▲ | spwa4 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Until the sun grows in a final blaze of glory and burns all Qurans at the same time for 100 million years? |
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| ▲ | ButlerianJihad 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You say that like it’s a bad fnord |
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| ▲ | john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | i am interested in hearing why you think it is not god awful | |
| ▲ | RIMR 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean, I get that these things are typically matters of opinion, but if you value things like freedom and privacy, these things are objectively bad. |
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| ▲ | logicchains 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Fortunately the US has not only freedom of speech in the constitution but also tens of millions of armed civilians that place a hard limit on how much control the government can have over people's speech. The only reason the Chinese government can achieve such control over speech is because it can disappear anyone who speaks against it. It doesn't even need guns; Nepalese youth managed to stop social media censorship there just by going to the political capital and threatening to beat the MPs to death. |
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| ▲ | rwyinuse an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | America may have tens of millions of armed civilians, but I'm not convinced that so many of them care about freedom of speech, particularly when it comes to people who they disagree with. | |
| ▲ | niels8472 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | From the Chinese constitution: Article 35 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration. | | |
| ▲ | vondur an hour ago | parent [-] | | Hahah, that's also what the Constitution of the Soviet Union stated. Tell that to everyone that got sent to the Gulag's for speaking up. |
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| ▲ | fakedang an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Has the armed civilian population done anything to protect constitutional rights? Last time a section of them mobilized, it was to overthrow a rightfully elected government. | | |
| ▲ | xienze an hour ago | parent [-] | | They were unarmed and the government was and continues to be scared shitless of that "attempted overthrow" (with no weapons? Does anyone really believe that had any chance of succeeding?) to this very day. Seems to me like that Second Amendment thing could be very effective with a sufficiently motivated population. |
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