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Looking at European history, I don't think that we can claim that the continent is today more authoritatian than it has been in the past.
by estebank 3y ago
Looking at European history, I don't think that we can claim that the continent is today more authoritatian than it has been in the past.
- gumballindie 3y agoLong term that is correct, but compared to a few years back it is. Snooping on people's phone conversations is a thing of the STASI, Securitate and NKVD era. Having everything you do monitored by the government through casual on street surveillance, and then introducing that to phones is not particularly flattering.
- saiya-jin 3y agoBut that's not unique to EU, look at US post 9/11. Let's say there was a period of more freedom in the west, and its declining steadily. I've heard some US reporter predicting live in TV exactly this happening as towers were falling, I wish I remembered his name.