harkyns_ruins

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   by harkyns_ruins 11y ago

   Thanks, whipped down thoroughly, I must have had my wires crossed with other policies I liked. If this gets through anyway, I seem to have been rate limited.
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   by harkyns_ruins 11y ago

   The tyranny of the majority. If you can control what they watch on tele, you can basically control what they think.
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   by harkyns_ruins 11y ago

   I can't speak for the OP, but the Nordic countries seem to be pretty progressive in this aspect. I'd gladly relocate to a country that doesn't have this invasiveness (hint hint, 20 odd years in software and devops, hook me up
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   by harkyns_ruins 11y ago

   Well the current laws passed in Australia mean a large array of government departments can see our metadata. That aside, we know the intelligence gathered has been used for parallel construction... perhaps just selectively I guess.
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   by harkyns_ruins 11y ago

   Seems to be a pretty common theme going on now, at least among the five eyes and any beholden countries. The one thing that makes me (grimace) laugh is that with this level of surveillance, they seem to be either a) incredibly incompetent b
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   by harkyns_ruins 11y ago

   I don't think it's worth worrying about inequality at this stage, we've gone past the tipping point. The people that can make a change have no desire to do so, and they hold the reins tightly now. The rest are either frustrat