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A trump appointee would likely be replaced in 4 years. If I lived in an autocracy, I'd be less likely to support government surveillance.
by mgraczyk 5y ago
A trump appointee would likely be replaced in 4 years.
If I lived in an autocracy, I'd be less likely to support government surveillance.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago> A trump appointee would likely be replaced in 4 years. Depends on how you interpret January 6th. And a Trump-appointed surveillance board could have been used to make January 6th more successful...
- mgraczyk 5y agoThey could have also used the military or nuclear weapons... To be clear we're not talking about a board that performs surveillance. We're talking about government responsibility to set rules, and to investigate and prosecute violations of those rules. I agree that bad things can be done by bad people. The more interesting question to me is whether or not the potential badness is outweighed by the benefits. In this specific case, I think better surveillance would have done more to prevent January 6 than to exacerbate it. Clearly in retrospect, social media data was instrumental in prosecuting those who physically entered the capitol. So in this case I think more surveillance would have improved the situation.