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A democracy, while not an ideal system of governance, is based on negotiations and compromises between various stakeholders. A written or unwritten constitution
by webmobdev 5y ago
A democracy, while not an ideal system of governance, is based on negotiations and compromises between various stakeholders. A written or unwritten constitution tries its best to spell out the compromises that was negotiated between all the party and leaves the grey area to a neutral court.
For a democratic system to function efficiently trust is essential. Citizens need to trust that a democratic government will not over reach beyond their stated power, and governments in power need to respect that citizen voters are not manipulable fools. And both needs to believe that the other can be held accountable, if necessary.
Without going into much detail, I believe that a decent compromise that can be reached on this issue is for the citizens to demand extremely strong privacy regulations and stringent wiretapping laws if the government wants us to forego encryption.
- idiotsecant 5y agoLaws are only valid for the length of the public's attention span. There are countless examples of citizen-friendly laws that were slowly chipped away until they were irrelevant. I'd rather not have to trust my government at all. I'm not sure that I buy the premise that trust is necessary- quite the opposite in fact. I think accountability is necessary. Any system that requires trust or goodwill is doomed to failure.
- webmobdev 5y ago> There are countless examples of citizen-friendly laws that were slowly chipped away until they were irrelevant. And I blame the citizens of that country when such things happen. Democracy survives only if you actively participate in it. A healthy democracy is where people are not apathetic and extremely cynical.