Comment by ppeetteerr
6 years ago
In some countries, people trust their government to do the right thing. If the people in power believe that an app is a security risk, they ban it.
6 years ago
In some countries, people trust their government to do the right thing. If the people in power believe that an app is a security risk, they ban it.
> In some countries, people trust their government to do the right thing.
In some countries, some people trust their government to do such things, and it may even be majority of people. That doesn't help the portion of citizens that get such decisions imposed on them against their will.
Then people are fucking morons. There are no two ways about it - abusable power will be abused. Hell "security risk" as a rationale is a vague layer to shield from criticism of policies. Since it is implicitly the magical special pleading wand known as "national security".
You might think so, but I would point to the fact that the US democracy is being attacked via social means from Russia, and possibly other governments. Then you have municipal governments having their networks locked down by ransomware from foreign agents. Not to forget how many acts of espionage take place through our internet. Might not be a bad idea to limit the amount of foreign access to local data.
My examples are not apps, but a threat is a thread.
Easy to call people morons when more than 20% of the people are illiterate and support their government when it's acting in their interest.