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It's still no and far from a direct democracy.
Direct democracy is not a panacea. In fact, it can be quite the opposite. Fair and effective governance is a very difficult thing to achieve, tending either to be subvertible, or totalitarian.
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Mathematically it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people, than among 10 million. What would prevent it from working for you?
> it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people Democracy is not majority voting.
Basically it is. You don't need representatives to be democratic.
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Another question : Ruptly is reporting live on these protests in Paris and Berlin on YT weekly now. Are they part of the censorship? Is there something they are not showing?
But, it's better than nothing, and at least documents who started what. In the case of Berlin recently, it was particularly shocking.
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Not only that, but child porn seems to mean a different thing in every place. The Netherlands and other European countries define the age of consent at 16, meaning some things that are perfectly legal there will be a ticket to prison in many countries. Now you don't just have an engineering problem, you will also have to spend a bunch of money to have some lawyers review your spec.
The age of consent goes low as 14 in Europe but that doesn't change the definition of CP. Probably they won't prosecute when both parties are underage and such so heavily but consent age doesn't change the fact that nudity is 18+.
Sorry but in France, 30 years ago before american culture started to dictate where money come from, you would see genitals from all genders and ages in movies.
Nobody found it offensive, because we didn't have a catholic puritan morality to impose its sick twisted vision of the human body on us.
Meanwhile we sold car by showing cars, not hot girls. But this apparently is ok because money.
It's also perfectly alright to show kids image of people killing each others in mass. Because this is sane, unlike nipples.
And now this Apple crap.
Edit: ok 50 years ago. I'm getting old it seems.
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Protonmail uses PGP and not "home-brewn encryption" and encryption is on by default between Protonmail users.
False. Even when it does use PGP, it is meaningless, explanation: I just created a spare protonmail account. It asked me to pick a username and password, and my account is created. Next, I send there a message from my other account. Yes, on the receiving end it does write "End-to-end encrypted and signed message", but encrypted and signed by what exactly? I have never created a PGP keys and loaded the public key to P…
The scary thing about this is that many people have images that look like child porn at home: Family photos of naked grandchildren playing at the sea or in the mud, as well as sexting between consenting teenagers. There is no way automatic classification can distinguish these from real child porn, because they look almost identical and thus many private pictures will be shared with the government. This not only infri…
> as well as sexting between consenting teenagers. Good god. I can't imagine the influx of in my view innocent teens suddenly labeled sex offenders because they did what all teens do, only virtually. This is going to be a weird time.
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>almost all EU governments act in direct violation and EU has no real power/wish to stop them. This would seem to contradict your original post, no?
No, where is the contradiction?
- an unstoppable authoritarian juggernaut to which countries have foolishly ceded their sovereignty and are now paying the price in the form of draconian regulation
- a weak and ineffectual symbolic union which issues empty proclamations that countries are free to ignore without consequence
Which is it?
The news are pretty depressing these last couple of days. We're marching towards very dystopian future.
We have had unprecedented growth and development in the world, it's just that bad news sells more papers. Don't let it bring you down!
Yes, the house fire is very very hot. Good job.
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False. Even when it does use PGP, it is meaningless, explanation: I just created a spare protonmail account. It asked me to pick a username and password, and my account is created. Next, I send there a message from my other account. Yes, on the receiving end it does write "End-to-end encrypted and signed message", but encrypted and signed by what exactly? I have never created a PGP keys and loaded the public key to P…
Someone once explained to me that any webmail service is inherently able to read your mail: otherwise it could not display your mail to you. True end-to-end encryption means keeping your private keys client-side and the client on a computer over which you have full physical control.
Verification is very simple: if you log in on a new device and see all your content while using only login and password to authenticate yourself, then the content stored on a server is NOT encrypted and is readable by server owner.
Politicians really like to use "child pornography" as a wedge issue for surveillance as it's a topic that people overwhelmingly see as "a bad thing". This screams slippery slope.
Exactly. Just like “terrorism” is used as an excuse to take control of oil fields.