• Kekzkrieger@feddit.org
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    4 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.

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      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.

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          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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        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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          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.

      • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 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.

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          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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          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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      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.