[sofixa]

"the government" lol

> Your wild edge case is someone else's life and living.

Yes, the person whose name is mangled by a shitty bank's IT systems. Or the people who can see what a shitty data vacuuming company has on them( that now has to ask for consent beforehand).

Regulations are there to protect people like that, not just for fun.

[macinjosh]

In the 20th century 151,000,000 people were killed by "the government". lol? Maybe don't laugh about people that kill people for power.

https://hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM

[sofixa]

"government" isn't a monolithic entity. You can't compare the EU, USA, or a random dictator in Iraq or Congo. Trying to imply they're the same and that they're all somehow inherently bad is libertarian bullshit that fails a basic sniff test.

The article you've linked is obviously biased ( why does it make a point of talking about totalitarian communist regimes and their death toll and not any other totalitarian regimes'? Some of the most infamous and deadly totalitarian regimes aren't communist - Iran's Islamic one, Saddam in Iraq, Hitler, Mussolini). And the argument that totalitarian regimes are bad because they wage war and that democracies can't even execute serial killers falls apart when the US is brought in. I won't even bother with the rest.