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It's always amazed me how much England is a polic state with information and the internet while being firmly in West as far as democracy and in the line of hist
by slackstation 10y ago
It's always amazed me how much England is a polic state with information and the internet while being firmly in West as far as democracy and in the line of history that that extends back to the Greeks.
Seriously, banning End-to-End Encryption? That's just a barrier to businesses operating in your borders and entrepreneurs starting up in your garages (or sheds rather).
- gumby 10y ago> It's always amazed me how much England is a polic state with information and the internet while being firmly in West as far as democracy and in the line of history that that extends back to the Greeks. The Athenians had a violent state periodically ruled by dictators (tyrants). Sparta was a weird totalitarian state. Both were tribalist most similar to the Wahhabis. The common culture they brought with them when they invaded Greece would be familiar in lots of countries (e.g. the women were in purdah). And England has been a prime factory for totalitarianism for centuries: consider Bentham's Panopticon and what country Orwell lived in. And they are the inventors of the modern concentration camp...