How governments design laws against you and call it cybersecurity - SMEX
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You write something online. Nothing heroic. Nothing controversial. A joke about the electricity that never works or a sarcastic comment on a minister’s speech. Weeks later, your phone rings. There is a law you’re being held accountable under, and there’s a good chance it has the word “cybercrime” in the title, which is strange because […]
  • PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.auEnglish
    7·
    15 hours ago

    There are people laws bind and people laws protect.

    Never both. Which one are you?

    Edit: if you’re not sure, have grok generate you some particularly bad kiddie porn, then send it to yourself and cc your local chief of police.

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      16 hours ago

      Ghislaine Maxwell develops class consciousness

      I’m just joking, she already has it, along with the other billionaires

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      20 hours ago

      I‘m not sure if Democracy can survive with that sentiment but I‘m also not sure if it can survive without it.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        19 hours ago

        Democracy relies on transparency and verification, not trust. Any government official who tries to keep secrets from the public is an enemy of the People.

        • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          You need some trust I think. You wouldn‘t really need elections if everything was fact based and that would cause distrust.