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Er just about every nation, ever? As nations develop legal & regulatory systems, the means of corruption changes, but the corruption stays. In India companies
by crispinb 7y ago
Er just about every nation, ever? As nations develop legal & regulatory systems, the means of corruption changes, but the corruption stays.
In India companies directly pay politicians to skirt regulations. Here in Australia that's rarer, but the corporations via lobbyists simply write the regulations that they then largely conform to. Same deal. Different means.
- celticninja 7y agoI guess GP means state sanctioned support. But I don't agree that this is an Israeli only thing, Hacking Team are Italian and do the same thing.
- crispinb 7y agoSure - as it happens my nation (Australia) has far fewer of the kind of entanglements that prompt this particular activity, compared to Israel. But you can entirely sure that if we did, we'd allow tech spying lobbyists to write the necessary laws to cover them.
- somesortofsystm 7y agoAustralia is about 100x better at hiding its entanglements than Israel, which has had an overt show of force policy for decades. Australia, on the other hand, has so many layers and levels of secrecy around its state-run operations of this nature, that its impossible, truly, to really ever know. Australia leads the way when it comes to repressing free speech and the public right of knowledge over what is being done in their name by the ADF, and has even taught Israel a few things or two about keeping its internal populations at heel when something nasty inevitably leaks out. And then there is that whole secret court, secret prison, secret prisoner thing.