Comment by dkiebd

Comment by dkiebd 11 hours ago

7 replies

But the government is much more of an enemy to me than my ISP, not to mention I can switch ISPs but I can’t switch governments.

0dayz 11 hours ago

>but I can’t switch governments.

Maybe use the time machine to move out of Franco's Spain?

  • dkiebd 10 hours ago

    What percentage of citizens do you think support the blocking of websites for reasons of copyright? We have as much choice in the matter as we would have under Franco.

    • 0dayz 8 hours ago

      If the people don't agree with something they can always do three things in a democratic country:

      * start a party to push for legislative changes that resonate with what the people want

      * vote for a party that propose to change certain legislation to something more adjacent to what the people want

      * people can lobby the government via interest groups or as a collective to influence politicians or if the constitution allows for it try and hold a popular vote on the issue(s)

      • dkiebd 8 hours ago

        That doesn’t work for small issues like this, as well as you know. And the proof is that wildly unpopular things like this keep occurring. We don’t live in a democracy if it’s not like in Switzerland with their direct democracy where we can vote on all issues one by one. What we have is a joke.

        • 0dayz 8 hours ago

          There's been countless of small concerns that had been able to be propelled to becoming law or do you think that banning plastic straws is a genuine big movement?

          It came from within the party that pushed for it.

beAbU 8 hours ago

> but I can’t switch governments.

But you can though.

saubeidl 5 hours ago

All countries in the EU are democratic plus there's freedom to move between them. You can definitely switch governments.