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Wouldn't that be pretty fucking insane though, to get imprisoned for opening a page that you had reason to believe the government didn't want you to see? Senten
by authatheist 12y ago
Wouldn't that be pretty fucking insane though, to get imprisoned for opening a page that you had reason to believe the government didn't want you to see? Sentenced to life in prison for Unlawful Use of Eyesight.
If you're worried about that actually happening, you just might live in a police state, don't you think?
But let us never doubt that governments are a wondrous, necessary and Just institution. Sometimes they just have to torture you to death to maintain order for, you know, the greater good and all.
- thisGuysAccount 12y agoPeople have gone to jail for doing exactly what this looks like it could be -- clicking on a link, sent by a friend, containing material stolen in a data breach. I didn't know what was in there. I'm not really interested in finding out what was in there, by having to talk to police about something the next time I fly somewhere.
- authatheist 12y agoOf course people have. People are being tortured to death by governments this very moment. The point was the utter insanity of it all, of the same way of societal organization of rulers and subjects continuing for millenia on end. Tyranny intensifies, and tyranny loosens up, but no matter how many times our rulers prove to us that having rulers is a bad idea, the masses keep accepting them anyway.
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