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there isn't going to be a technical solution to the problem of terrible world governments, the only real solution is going to be to change the governments.


In democratic countries, at least you have that possibility. Elsewhere it might not be possible at all. Nationwide censorship and surveillance are probably pretty effective technical “solutions” for preventing change.


Why are they different things? Isn't, on some very fundamental level, the act of changing the governments a "technical solution"?




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