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"free country"... oxymoron of the century by now...
by maze-le 7y ago
"free country"... oxymoron of the century by now...
- duxup 7y agoWhat would you define a "free country" as?
- AndrewBissell 7y agoAmong other things, one would certainly have to exclude any country which engages in the mass collection and permanent storage of all of its citizens' communications.
- duxup 7y agoWhat if the population was ok with that / didn't care?
- naniwaduni 7y agoThey would be wrong.
- duxup 7y agoThat's the risk of democracy. The alternatives have proven to involve a great deal less freedom.
- mhluongo 7y agoThe whole population? Freedom is freedom for minority rights and opinions to not be quashed by the majority. Thus the term "the tyranny of the majority" A majority can "not care" about systematic racial injustice and other inequities. The consent of the majority doesn't make the system "free".
- JoeSamoa 7y agoThen I'd ask those same people to hand over their credentials to all their accounts since their data, privacy, and property, seem to matter little to them.
- jgon 7y agoI guess China is a shining beacon of freedom for it's people too then.
- AndrewBissell 7y agoYou could post this exact same question about operating concentration camps.
- falcolas 7y agoOne that doesn't suspend all freedoms and human rights when the magical word "terrorism" is invoked.
- refurb 7y agoHave an example of such a country?
- JoeSamoa 7y agoMaybe I wouldn't? Have you ever stopped to think that there is no such thing as free?
- dleslie 7y agoI like ones with full suffrage for all citizens of age of majority, including criminals. Like Canada.
- Mountain_Skies 7y agoCanada has a rather restrictive version of freedom of speech.
- dleslie 7y agoSure, but at least it doesn't allow slavery or disenfranchisement.
- HBKXNCUO 7y agoYou used the term first, so probably you should define it, and then you can explain why it's "questionable" for threat of prosecution to ever be considered torture in such a place, and then you can explain why the country threatening to prosecute Assange meets that definition.