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> Are public safety and a functioning society something to oppose? To some, that seems to be the case. Most of the replies I read misunderstood the wording. B
by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
> Are public safety and a functioning society something to oppose?
To some, that seems to be the case.
Most of the replies I read misunderstood the wording. But some took a clear ideological stance against providing services to the police.
It’s those kind of interactions that made me leave Mastodon in the end. I’m neither right wing nor left wing, I’m just pro-common sense, and people who flaunt their ideology through megaphones make me hate this planet.
- tourmalinetaco 3y agoCommon sense dictates that giving more power and safety to governments is not a good thing. Especially when said governments already attack innocent civilians, and will use that power to further harm others.
- i-use-nixos-btw 3y agoCommon sense doesn’t dictate that. Ideology does. For every argument for it, there’s an argument against it - the disagreement between the two sides of it is rarely on the facts, but on the weight one holds on various things. And that’s where ideology comes in. If civilians have access to private communication, and can pay for enhanced features, why should govt organisations not? OTOH why are the implications on transparency? It’s a hard one. Is personal privacy more important than the ability to prevent domestic terror and the distribution of material that we can all (I’d hope) agree is abhorrent? That’s not a trivial question. The list could go on. There are arguments on both sides and they’re far from settled. Me, I just get fed up of seeing people adopt these ideas as if they’re gospel and (as in the mastodon thread) start screaming fascism, as if they have any idea what it is.