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Can you give a few examples?
by zachlatta 9y ago
Can you give a few examples?
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoPretty much every authoritarian overthrow that became genocidal relied on a previous bureaucracy's meticulous record keeping.
- zachlatta 9y agoCan you please give a few examples?
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoThe classic ones are Pol Pot and Hitler. With the latter, the Danish example is useful.
- zachlatta 9y agoIn your original comment, you were implying that societies that lose privacy go south very quickly. As in that loss of privacy is causal. I can't speak for Pol Pot, since I'm not very familiar with his regime, but with Hitler and the Danish, my understanding is that record keeping aided in the German occupation. Not that the Denmark went downhill after it started doing meticulous data gathering. Can you give causal examples?
- FridgeSeal 9y agoAlso include the Stasi in East Germany.