[baranul]

> "It works better for totalitarian regimes" is an argument for not doing it.

The problem is that authoritarianism has been allowed to become attractive to many politicians, because they are allowed to be bought by corporate money, even if it harms their constituents. Rights, freedom, and privacy has become secondary to money and the blind lust for power.

[AnthonyMouse]

That's more of a second order effect but I'm not sure it's wrong.

You have so many twits trying to get away with authoritarian nonsense that they're conditioning people through propaganda to accept authoritarian nonsense. What happens then? More twits trying to get away with authoritarian nonsense.

We need to come up with a better solution to this than the historical norm of things getting so bad that people are finally willing to fight a war over it.