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Only if you're naive. I guess most here are.
Governments are paranoid, particularly about losing control and influence over its subjects. This is expected behaviour.
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myko • yesterday at 2:43 AM
This is a very different vibe in the US than it has been in living memory.
puchatek • yesterday at 6:26 AM
Democratic governments care about this to a degree but only autocratic ones get paranoid.
By that logic we should expect all governments to regress to totalitarianism, which hasn’t happened, and isn’t what’s happening here.
The question isn’t if some would attempt these behaviors, but rather if we and our democratic structures empower those people or fail to constrain them.