[tor-talk] BBC Horizon: Inside the Dark Web

[carlo von lynX]

Nice doc. Indeed surprisingly balanced. Then again, no...

Several times they were alluding to the aspect of governments using
automations to single out groups of people that may be doing something
harmful.

That may sound to the superficially minded as something positive.

I was missing the extra sentence saying that governments are not the
ones who should be in charge of determining which political opposition
is legitimate and which one may be deserving of intervention.

The danger surveillance is supposed to protect us from is ridiculous
compared to the damage it does to democracy. Civil rights are not about
you and your mum, they are about not giving certain parts of the democratic
system inbalanced power over others. Letting governments control the
formation of opposition is a breakdown of the seperation of powers, the
end of the checks and balances, the termination of democracy.

Our governments have now the power to become self-sufficient regimes
anytime they choose and it is a question of time until the wrong people
get in power and will make us feel the consequences.

We're like in the Weimarer Republik 1929, when the weakness of the new
democratic architecture was only waiting for someone like Hitler to
abuse it. The next holocaust may be only ten years away. But is there
something that could be considered a "good side" anymore? Will at least
some countries on earth understand the problem and be on the "good side"
of history? And do they stand a chance to win?

The doc kind of gets to say some of these things, but then it says
Wikileaks was "under attack for releasing unredacted documents" which
is an unfair way to put it: The journalist from the Guardian had foolishly
published the passwords of those documents. Journalists have repeatedly 
shown to be a serious problem in this entire architecture.

Haha, the ICANN part is hilarious... big spectacle for something hardly
relevant. Too bad BBC fails to deliver the irrelevance of DNS getting
a bit more secure while keeping all other downsides. But hey, what a show!


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