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Comment by HighGoldstein

2 days ago

> I don’t know much about many of those countries, and I have no reason to spend hours googling them.

A good reason might be to back up the serious accusation a few comments above.

> A recent law has enabled the Swedish police to open mail to private individuals if they suspect there might be drugs in them. This is just one change of many that has reduced the liberties of the citizens.

While this isn't ideal in a vacuum, I don't see the alternative. If physical mail is given inviolable privacy, you're pretty much handing bad actors the perfect delivery system on a silver platter. I'm sure there's other examples of decisions that increased Swedish authorities' surveillance capabilities, but to call a country a surveillance state requires a little more than "They can check your mail if they suspect you're using it for drug delivery".

who said mail should be given 'inviolable privacy'?

Now there is enough reason to open private mail if the mail is a little squishy and it was sent from the wrong address.