• @thesporkeffect
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    29 months ago

    Literally nothing. If they were able to they would do it already, in several cases they are kind of half-assedly trying. Mutually assured destruction isn’t the principle of operation when one side is generally acting in good faith and the other side is actively pulling the copper out of the walls.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      The thing keeping them from doing that is they need some form of proof.

      Nothing is stopping anyone from just lying about everything, except other people who refuse to go along with the lie. All social systems are inherently backed by community intolerance of dishonesty.