10 more years and posts like this will be classified as hate speech and terror act against the state.
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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all these people and their families should come under public scrutiny. All their financial records, their communications, their online search histories, should be in the public domain.
Imagine living under 24/7 surveillance just because you are unlucky enough to be some politician's family member or a close friend.
It might be controversial, but: privacy should exist for everyone. No matter who you are, journalist, politician, activist or just a normal guy — anyone's privacy should be valued the same way. We need to push privacy in the masses, not vice versa.
I consider this post as more of a thought experiment. If this sounds extreme to you, then the mass surveillance of society is even more extreme.
The fact governments almost always exempt themselves should be all that's needed to prove the measures violate a democratic societies rule of law and civil liberties, and that their promotion should be considered treason — an attack on the civil liberties of the entire population is an attack on democracy itself.
I forget what privacy podcast I was listening to but they said that privacy is important because you might not be under scrutiny now but could be.
After the Boston marathon bombing reddit was scouring footage and believed a particular person was responsible ("we did it reddit!"). They were wrong. People found his address, work etc and he was stalked and harrassed for days though he did nothing wrong.
You can bet he would have liked to disappear for a while, and a little extra everyday privacy in advance would have made that a lot easier.
The more power a person has, the less privacy we cann afford to give them.
I heard once that in Norway, all members of parliament have to basically make most of their finances public (somebody confirm pls). I think anybody who is tasked with ruling a country should be required to show all their wealth assets and income sources for a few years even after they leave office.
Most democratic countries have what's known as a "Sworn Declaration". This is supposed to be a financial audit for anyone aspiring to a public office position.
In my country these are doctored and then some. Our next to last president used to work as a packer at a "bodega" in New York, but his sworn declaration put him at a net worth of over 100 million dollars.
The whole system, in every country, is corrupt.
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Harebrained.
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Cops too. All civil servants
That's a good response to their act but it's not the way to go, instead of controlling everyone included the politicals just stop to control the world