(03-08-2017, 08:40 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:
Sargon of Akkad does tend to get his facts straight and thus is worth listening to.
This is why I prefer a much smaller government with a foreign policy closer to Switzerland since it would be much harder to do these kinds of things. Lets face it, the CIA and NSA doing this kind of shit indicates more of a desire to control the population of then to deal with foreign threats. Think of what Stalin would have done with this which is why I do not have a smartphone.
I also avoid proprietary software because unless I control software on a device then someone else controls the device. While Richard Stallman is an economic illiterate but on the issue of free software and privacy time has shown that he is largely correct on that issue.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises