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but again, if it gets as bad as in Myanmar, a)laws wont help b) we will have bigger problems. Is shutting down internet a small step towards a coup, as oppose
by marshmallow_12 6y ago
but again, if it gets as bad as in Myanmar, a)laws wont help b) we will have bigger problems.
Is shutting down internet a small step towards a coup, as opposed to being the fruit of one? In the case of the US, i don't think it's likely short or medium term.
What about police abusing this power? That's a local government problem, not a national one, so it's different to what's going on in myanmar.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> if it gets as bad as in Myanmar, a)laws wont help b) we will have bigger problems It gets as bad as it has in Myanmar when one doesn't have those laws. If you ban cutting communications, it normalizes the expectation. Cutting communications now becomes personally and politically risky in a way it isn't if it's in the grey area. For an example, see India's slow slide into authoritarianism in this respect. Cutting communications in Kashmir was legal, but iffy. That normalized, legally and culturally, the mechanism. Now, communications are routinely cut across the country. All that said, Myanmar fell to a military coup. That's a different failure mechanism from elected leaders getting too comfortable on their thrones.
- baybal2 6y agoWe have a member called 2GKasmiri, would be appropriate to hear him here.
- selimthegrim 6y agoThey cut communications regularly across the country well before 2019