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> Sweden, having their legacy in social democracy and more state control, hates privacy Generally, this is because Swedes trust the state.
by dehrmann 1y ago
> Sweden, having their legacy in social democracy and more state control, hates privacy
Generally, this is because Swedes trust the state.
- anal_reactor 1y agoHot take but it makes sense to get rid of privacy under certain circumstances. What if we created a political system where you can trust the government to do a good, honest job. Privacy is needed because goals of the government aren't always aligned with goals of the society, but what if that wasn't the case.
- maronato 1y agoOnce you lose privacy, you can never get it back. The population may trust the government now, but totalitarian regimes are returning to fashion and love when they can skip the data collecting bureaucracy and go straight into building or offshoring their gulags.
- beeflet 1y agoyeah, what if? :P
- bvnierop 1y agoThe problem is that while the goals of today's government may align with all of society (which is already never going to happen), that says nothing about a future government. That future government may have far more nefarious interests and then use data gathered under the government that was trusted to achieve their goals.
- globalnode 1y agoI wouldnt trust their state, the one that argued for infecting their entire population with covid to achieve herd immunity, the one that bent the knee to the US when they wanted a sex scandal to arrest Assange, the one who wont release information they have about blown up gas pipelines in their back yard. I shouldnt pick on Sweden, all countries are like this now.
- looofooo0 1y agoI think Sweden was one of the best countries how it handle Covid. Assange is a farce on the other hand.