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Sweden Kills Democracy

Started by cordblomquist · 10 months ago

Ars reports that Sweden just passed a bill that will allow “Sweden’s National Defense Radio Establishment to monitor citizens’ phone calls, text messages, e-mails, and Internet use without a court order.” Though the bill only applies to communica ... Continue reading »

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  • That's certainly a bad bit of news for liberty and smaller govt. fans. ;-(

    But I don't think it's necessarily anti-democracy, is it? Isn't democracy just majority-rule, or perhaps mob-rule? If the majority of people support this, I think would still be considered democratic.
  • Speedmaster is right. It's not really anti-democracy, just anti-privacy - and probably enables anti-liberty policies. Unfortunately, in the U.S. today, "democracy" has become a synonym for "good" - anything good is democratic and anything democratic is good.

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