>but whenever something expresses its right to do or not do
The problem (or the virtue?) of this comment is that it's impossible to decipher with which side it disagrees, and for what reason too. Cause both sides expressed their right to do or not to do.
You are right in a laboratory way of let's-assume-perfect-adversary, and you're not in a how-it-really-works way. I simply have my own RL exp in a bad repressive country on this topic, and my claim that e.g. hidden volume works most of the time. Like any tech it will stop being useful eventually, but it has been saving people for quite some time.
Why is that is a long story. And it includes both general inefficiency of state apparatus, but also the fact that repressive systems aren't optimized for getting evidence (or just correct information) in most cases.
You are describing monetization quality, not content quality.
Printing has its moat, yes, which better protects it from copying, and process of consuming from interruptions, and creates payment in advance situation. Printing houses produce enormous amounts of cliche-by-cliche semi-porn "romantic novels", and various sensationalist garbage, and earn money without suffocating dependency on Google, FB and such. Good for them.
Let's not overdramatize, though. I'm not in need, or even in mood to talk to fellow humans every minute, so time spent with a clanker is not necessary taken from my human relations budget
The parent correctly noted that the elected president represented ideology with ideals of is violent theocracy, and he almost immediately started powergrabbing, trying to gain non-supervised judicial and legislative powers in addition to executive. How vague is that? I don't know, to me it looks rather clear that this was a path from one authoritarianism to another.
Which exact part of the state of affairs? Because if your point is that the current regime is propped by US assistance, it sounds fair, but would Egypt be a democracy if this military dictatorship disappears? If anything, revolution of 2011 suggests it's unlikely.
Besides, your sources need to be updated as you seem to believe that Ukraine is within top 3 receivers of the US military aid, and it's definitely not true.
The only thing so far which feels not fully fitting is that dot and pipe are often semantically equivalent - applying function to the output of the previous one. And yet you still need to pick the right one.
E.g. Clojure (which is too hosted over OOP language) treats dot as an indicator that it's a method, but invocation/application follows the same syntax as any fn:
(.method (function arg))
Meanwhile in Rye:
"12 8 12 16 8 6" .load .unique .sum
when unique and sum are from underlying Golang, but if I made them myself it suddenly has to be:
I'm not sure what "travel" even does here. Possessing citizen's info opens possibilities for influence ops, blackmailing, unfair advantage in business and much more. And non-democratic countries are always better at these games, cause they need not be afraid of the next government leaking, investigating, selling whatever they did.
Meanwhile gov't losing info on one citizen screws said citizen, but losing all of it screws the gov't itself, and generally rebalances power in favor of citizens. Which one may say isn't bad.
And then you'll have to choose another country after the next elections. Or even before, cause liking politicians from afar somehow much easier than when living in the same country.
As proven by history, it's convenient to have a big well-known external entity to blame as a source of any trouble, but in reality it's orders of magnitude easier to be a digital dissident in the US compared to the EU. And European Commission + European national governments are exactly the ones you should blame first. They are openly proud of how it works, they call it successful digitalization for a positive spin.