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It is not the governments duty to maintain an image, citizens or foreign parties are always free to criticise or praise any government. If the government feels
by villgax 6y ago
It is not the governments duty to maintain an image, citizens or foreign parties are always free to criticise or praise any government. If the government feels something is factually wrong then it can present statements from its press agency but not suppress criticism. This is the difference between an authoritative regime & a democracy.
Whenever we are done with dealing with the pandemic who ever is responsible for giving these orders needs to be trialed.
- gregjor 6y agoIn too many countries citizens are not free to criticize their government. Foreigners can get into trouble too if they criticize while in the country. Thailand, for example, has strict laws about criticizing the monarchy. Some of us take our right to freely criticize our government without penalty for granted and imagine it applies everywhere, but that isn’t the case.
- villgax 6y agoExactly, countries need to come clean & mention how would they treat non-citizens whether physically present or digitally participating
- gregjor 6y agoIf you visit a foreign country you need to learn about the laws that may affect you. Plenty of sources for that — travel guide books, State Dept. web site. As for digitally participating, you probably can’t face prosecution outside the country, but if you visit later you might get arrested. Violating Thailand’s lese majeste laws is not a crime outside of Thailand, for example, but you can be held responsible for social media posts if you come under Thai jurisdiction.
- colinmhayes 6y agoThe vast majority of Indians approve of Modi's premiership. Everyone is aware that it's an authoritarian regime, they don't mind. He has complete control over the courts, so I don't see how a trial could accomplish anything other than further cement his regime.
- mohanmcgeek 6y agoAh "the government that I don't like is authoritarian" logic. This government originally asked everyone to impose self lockdowns before real lockdowns became necessary. Surely what an authoritarian government would do.
- villgax 6y agoLol, so your justification is that one act of asking people to self-control is supposed to detract from our objection to being silenced for criticism or so called public image?? GTFO & learn about what exactly the constitution provides for & what kind of policy exists around the democratic world.
- mohanmcgeek 6y agoIf it's unconstitutional go challenge it in the courts instead of bickering about it in "hacker" "news"
- colinmhayes 6y agoYea and the martial law in muslim states surely is what a non-authoritarian government would do.