alt Hacker Newsscare quoting """""""""democracies""""""""" is perfectly acceptable when it couldn't be more obvious that those so-called democracies do anything but represent the will of their peoples. do you know anyone who'd voted for having to scan their face to access verboten webseites? to have encryption backdoors in their messengers? to have state-mandated spyware preinstalled on their phones?
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Yes, I do know people who voted for the party that pushes things like this in my country.
People don’t vote for it for themselves, they vote for it for others and are surprised when it applies to them just the same.
Plenty of people are happy to surrender their freedom for a feeling of security.
...you'd be surprised, plenty of regular people actually want these things to happen. State is God for reliably the majority of the population of the world (seeing as the majority resides in China and South Asia).
They don’t represent the people’s will, but unfortunately many people believe in censorship, so even if they were true direct democracies we may still see some.