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Would be nice if democracy would really work like that. In reality the ruling parties can make the laws how they like no matter if people will like it or not. T
by tpetry 7y ago
Would be nice if democracy would really work like that. In reality the ruling parties can make the laws how they like no matter if people will like it or not.
Think for example on the current plan in the US to break all end-to-end encryption: people will not like it but it does not matter
- vinay427 7y agoThat's not a counterexample. The claim was about enforcement of a law, not proposed legislation. It hasn't worked very well for other governments that have tried a similar approach, so I have little reason to believe people would just stop using E2E encryption. For a more apt example, consider digital piracy laws which are IIRC in the US explicitly ignored up to a certain number of counted (far from actual!) abuses.
- hutzlibu 7y ago"people will not like it but it does not matter" It does matter what the people like and not. The problem in this case is just, that most people do not at all understand the implications of breaking encryption. Actually most barley know what encryption is at all. Thats why there is no outrage.
- DangitBobby 7y agoThere was this analysis of bills passed and who supported them a while back by someone at Princeton. Turns out public opinion has a near negligible impact. https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem/ https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem/