[matheusmoreira]

Yeah. Laws can always be ignored or selectively enforced. They're worthless paper until something actually happens, and it will only happen after the fact, after people's rights have been violated.

Technology puts a stop to all that by making it harder if not impossible for them to abuse power in the first place.

[echion]

The flip side is also true: technology enables abuses of power to exist faster than the laws can be enforced.