[liberationtech] [Dewayne-Net] Are Hackers the Next Bogeyman Used to Scare Americans Into Giving Up More Rights?

[Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb]

On 15 Aug 2013, at 19:09, Kyle Maxwell <kylem at xwell.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb
> <ei8fdb at ei8fdb.org> wrote:
>> My issue is with - "Hacking" is bad when people do it. It's ok when the government do it.
> 
> To play devil's advocate for a moment: isn't that true for a lot of
> things?

I'm not going to bite! ;)

> The State is, in general, very jealous about its monopoly on
> things like violence and taxation, and (modulo anarchists, many of
> whom I love and respect) the majority of people are okay with those
> things.


I don't think most people are necessairly the same - extreme example, but I don't think I've ever heard "normal" (sure define "normal"!) people being ok with violence when carried out by states.

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