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    2 months ago

    Regarding the second argument: unless something really bad happens in the country, wouldnt it be impossible to put someone in prison for breaking a law that didnt exist you did the action?

    I know this is prohibited in the romanian constitution and i know that the entire document was inspired by the american constitution so i just assumed that it was a common thing to have in a constitution. I have seen a lot of people(including americans) use being charged for a crime that didnt exist when you committed it as a pro-privacy argument and im not sure if other countries just forgot to put one of the most important thing in their constitution

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        2 months ago

        Impossible unless something really bad happens in the country

        If something really bad happens in the country and they would lookin your history of comments if you supported something, couldnt they also ban privacy and charge you for that?

        Please correct me if im wrong

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          2 months ago

          Something really bad can happen. It has happened before in many countries, and will continue to happen as long as we have humans.

          Yes, privacy can be made more difficult. Certain privacy friendly services (example VPN, there are others) could be banned.

          But, the less information they have on you, the better off you’ll be.

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      unless something really bad happens in the country, wouldnt it be impossible to put someone in prison for breaking a law that didnt exist you did the action?

      yeesh, this’ll age like rotten eggs.