• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    … wtf is going on over there… What kind of douchebags did you guys elect? I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here, but y’alls were better than that. You like, wisely stood against our 9/11 invasion and we probably should’ve listened.

    But, wtf?

    btw, if anyone was too lazy to dig, this publication is a nigerian newspaper that actually seems legit. Founded in 2020, so pretty new still. Looking at their front page they mostly just do local reporting. Has had run-ins with local power.

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      We elected him as the “last rempart to the extreme right”. Turns out he and his cronies are corrupted authoritarian fucks. Their shit social and economic policies are opening a highway to the actual far right in the near future, most likely 2027.

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          More like shitty electoral system that facilitates the choice of a lesser evil instead of the choice for the best candidate.

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              They have proportional representation and a ton of parties. It’s a completely different kind of suck. Although I guess they also are presidential.

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            So what would be a good system? FPTP also sucks, or at least does for local minority voters like me, or if both parties become weak for whatever reason like in the US.

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              Maybe ranked choice voting, coupled with a parliamentary system instead of a presidential one ? I don’t think there is a perfect system but it would probably move things around in a better direction.

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      You know that America just… does this, right? No bill, no law… In fact it was the first to do this at all. It’s why in crime shows they remove the battery (from phone where you still can, of course.)

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        No, the “Patriot” Act did authorize stuff like this in the US. There was also the “Freedom” Act, and generally this is all FISA stuff that has very low standards for what’s allowed.

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            Still no. Do they do it anyway? Probably, but that doesn’t make it legal.

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              If I do something, people find out about it, and I don’t get arrested, it’s defacto legal

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              are they gonna get in trouble for doing it, even if the government finds out?

              probably not, so it’s practically legal; and that’s kind of the only kind of legality that matters in this case

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        It would require a warrant signed by a judge with probable cause.

        Wiretap warrants aren’t easy.

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          Sorry for the late response, but remind me again how many warrants the FISA court has denied?

          That’s an approval rate of 99.97%

    • Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
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      I mean, I’m American, I know I can’t throw stones here

      Right? I’m wary of chastising any first world country at the moment. The past 7 years in particular have been especially WTF

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    This will definitely not be misused by anyone in the government. How on the earth did such blatantly dystopian law get passed?

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          Except that not really, France could easily have another revolution when things like this happen. NATO doesn’t want any revolutions because the workers would have more power, they want corporation to hold power and wealth, as they can be controlled and sanctioned more easily.

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    While people in the west have been smugly pointing fingers at China, their own governments did everything they’ve been denouncing in China and worse. Congratulations.

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      This is bad, but that’s such an overused comparison. It can even be counterproductive because the Oceania from the books is so obviously different from the real world.

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        I’m talking about the wall in their rooms though that they can use to listen in when they want, you have no private conversations.

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    The article does not mention, how will this be achieved technology wise? I don’t know of any universal way that a government might activate these features on a person’s phone. Unless network operators/phone manufacturers start installing backdoors. This does not bode well.

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    The US has exported it’s police brutality and police state to France. They even have the similar right wing news apperatice to convince the populace it’s all good. Making Uncle Sam proud 🇺🇸🇫🇷🍟🥖

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    I am Indian. Even our douche bag of politicians will think twice before passing such legislation. Of course they will spy illegally on us but they won’t pass such obvious fascist legislation.

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      The protests are for police brutality against Minorities. Apparently the shot 17 years old kid was repeatedly hit with back of the gun which made him moves his leg away from the breaks and since it’s an automatic the car started moving forward…the rest is history.

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    At least it’s happening out in the open? Other states do this without parlimentary or congressional approval.

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    A Google search for “France phone camera” only gives this posted link and dailymail.co.uk article, both of which are not really trustworthy sources, IMO.

    So I’m gonna go with “this is very possibly fake news”.