On 13 Jun 2017, at 7:53 pm, Paul Wilkins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Firstly, we need to recognise the authority of the State is necessary for
> security and freedom.
As a concept, and as a question of degree, that claim is quite heavily
contested.
You're not going to get away with hand waving your way past it without defining
your terms and describing where you think the limits are.
I know I don't need to recognise the authority if the State to monitor my
communications to assure anybody's security and freedom. Pretty sure I don't
need my government to monitor yours either. It's reasonable to expect that any
privileges granted to them to produce secure and free outcomes should be
narrowly tailored.
Hard to do that at the moment because they haven't even bothered to explain
what they intend to do with the powers they're demanding.
Authoritarians rarely feel the need to justify themselves: Authority is
something that should be felt, not something that should be questioned.
- mark
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