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I think the best way to get rid of a horrible law like this is indeed to enforce against the people who wrote it. Enforce equitably, and enforce equally: the sa
by perihelions 3y ago
I think the best way to get rid of a horrible law like this is indeed to enforce against the people who wrote it. Enforce equitably, and enforce equally: the same misery everyone else already knows. If ministers worry about their private communications being read by strangers—if that makes them feel fearful, paranoid, violated—then let them feel fearful, paranoid, violated, just like the hundreds of millions of other people they would enforce those feelings on.
"Laws are to govern all alike — those opposed as well as those who favor them. I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." –Ulysses S. Grant (1869)—often misquoted and misattributed to Lincoln,
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#First_Inaugural_Address_(1869) https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses_S._Grant#First_Inaugur...
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Misattributed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Misattributed
- KingOfCoders 3y agoWhen working for a large company, everyone was miserable with bad IT support outsourced to India (not about India). Then I learned, that one level above me, there was special director level IT support inside the country. When working for a large company, when moving, my boss praised the virtues of the new open office and how our current team rooms were bad. Then we learned, that he had a private office in the new setup.
- rightbyte 3y ago"Whataboutism". Brushing away hypocrisy is way to easy nowadays. It would be way better for morale if they just said that offices are a benefit then pretending to defend something they don't believe in.
- javajosh 3y agoI'd go further and say the more power you have the less privacy you should have.
- sirdvd 3y agoOr at least, the more public resources you manage the less privacy you should have.
- agilob 3y agoor why not both?
- repelsteeltje 3y agoSpot on. The silver lining about them clearly trying to exempt themselves is that they at least seem to be aware of the negative consequences of their proposal. So: not the right solution, but at least something that looks like a transition from blissfully ignorant -> aware of problems. Cogs are in motion, learning is happening.
- redeeman 3y agoare you crazy? it means they are aware, and WANT that for the population, but not themselves. cogs are NOT in motion to fix this for the people, they are in motion to DO this to the people.
- miohtama 3y agoThis makes harder to lie about the fact that this is a mass surveillance bill.
- account42 3y agoI don't think this stopped anyone before. Things like the US PATRIOT act were not passed because the politicians behind it didn't understand what they were doing.
- repelsteeltje 3y agoWell, I learned not to attribute to malice what could equally be attributed to incompetence. ... But I get your point