• @[email protected]
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    782 months ago

    If only in the same breath we would make all the politicians text messages public, guess they only want other chats to be controlled but not their own.

    • @[email protected]
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      502 months ago

      I keep mentioning this idea, hoping to someday make it seem less extreme: the government should be under total surveillance 24/7.

      Like, anyone at any time can look through any of the tens of thousands of cameras saturating every government building.

      • e$tGyr#J2pqM8v
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        122 months ago

        Open source government, eh? Don’t know if this would work completely but I like the direction.

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          42 months ago

          Army and police get to have non-camera operations of course. They’re still recorded, just not broadcast for whatever delay makes the tactical information obsolete.

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        42 months ago

        Honestly this is an intersting idea. Albeit, it may be hatd to implement since some buildings have to be private for national security reasons (specifically regarding military strategy and such).

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          42 months ago

          Military’s camera feeds go into memory crystals that automatically unshuffle after like 50 years. That way history is guaranteed to get a full accounting of the conflict, but there’s no possibility of strategic information giveaway.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      342 months ago

      Julian Assange tried to do that and he was nearly lynched for it.

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        432 months ago

        And then blamed for ruining the 2016 American election.

        Snowden showed the government was spying, had to flee, deemed a terrorist. Assange showed the government disobeys the laws it enforces on everyone else, deemed a terrorist. Manning showed that war crimes are constant, deemed a terrorist, subjected to inhumane torture.

        Every time a whistleblower exposes corruption and violations of laws in every country, they are punished. China, Russia, America, England, they’re all guilty of it.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          172 months ago

          Every time a whistleblower exposes corruption and violations of laws in every country, they are punished.

          Typically by being accused of acting as foreign agents. Assange was a Radical Islamist under Bush, a nefarious Russia/China double agent under Obama, and an insidious Hispanic cartel boss under Trump.

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          32 months ago

          I don’t know why but I’ve got this strange tingling feeling it might just be a human nature group thing.

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      72 months ago

      Even if I deeply like the Idea, something like this could backfire if it’s done constantly and not just once. But I would like to see a law that makes the usage of government communications mandatory for all government-related communication while storing everything revision-proof on their servers with different access rights. And a second law that makes it possible to access it by requiring petitions to be singled by a low number of people. Less extreme but still makes it harder to be corrupt.