on dissent in voice and action

[metasilk]

it was time to, once again, come forward with the question of government surveillance, government intimidation, and the right of citizens to vocally dissent. I think that the gasoline of democracy is the right to dissent, because wherever there’s power, wherever there’s privilege, power and privilege are going to try to remove, insofar as they can

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[irilyth]

I often think that security is better accomplished through detection (followed by correction) than prevention, and I think that this is sort of getting at that. We don't need a world where our government never does bad things; that's just naive. What we need is a world where, when our government does bad things, *we can catch them at it*. (And, this will deter them from doing bad things, which is great, but which isn't even the main point.)