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Someone once said: "A democracy with advanced tech is less free than a dictatorship with primitive technology".

> Someone once said: "A democracy with advanced tech is less free than a dictatorship with primitive technology"

Someone was an idiot. They should read about life in ancient Egypt, Inquisition-era Spain, Nazi Germany or the GDR, each of which was less technologically advanced than Switzerland, New Zealand, Denmark, Estonia or Ireland today [1].

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...

It can become true at some point, though.

Possiblity for abuse is greater with greater tech. For all his purges Stalin never had ability to track and measure contents of your thoughts, we might not be there yet but a democracy with ability to detect and alter thoughts is way more sinister than all those mentioned.

Imagine tomorrow's Holocausts but enjoyable, and then quickly forgotten.

Sure. That doesn’t invalidate democracy on the basis of technological advancement.

What passes for democracy in practice is already quite tainted. Give it more technological power and results can be just as bad.

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