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> If you know everything about the people high up This is a law for the peasantry not the nobility. Due to international treaties (e.g. Five Eyes) it'll allow
by vv_ 2y ago
> If you know everything about the people high up
This is a law for the peasantry not the nobility. Due to international treaties (e.g. Five Eyes) it'll allow federal agencies in the United States to spy on US citizens using the UK as proxy.
The greatest irony is that Western societies are slowly becoming the dystopia they once accused China of being and evidently nobody cares.
- Lanolderen 2y agoYeah. That's the implementation issue. It'd need to go top->down somehow. And I wouldn't say nobody cares. It's just that a lot of what's happening is quite technical for normal people and in many countries you can't even really do much about it. At this point you're getting bent over by your government, other peoples governments, awkward techbros with visions, weirdos with business plans, etc..
- vv_ 2y ago> It's just that a lot of what's happening is quite technical for normal people What's the point of news media if not to explain these issues to the general public in a way they can understand? If we lived in a free and open society that values personal privacy and opposes government overreach, this would be prime-time news, plastered across the front pages of every newspaper. I don't see a practical difference between what's happening here and what's happening in China, except that the Western world is considerably more nuanced in how it controls the (global) narrative. We've been living in an Orwellian nightmare for a long time.
- InkBloomfield 2y agoThe news media is in many cases simply stenographers for the state/government/corporate interests.