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Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers

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157 points robtherobber | 3 comments | 12 Dec 25 15:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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LightBug1 ◴[12 Dec 25 15:58 UTC] No.46245340[source]▶
Spit balling now ... I just feel like the years have rolled on by so quickly now, that we've aged out of all of the lessons we had to learn before. And now we're going to have to learn them all over again.
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Muromec ◴[12 Dec 25 16:57 UTC] No.46245981[source]▶
There is an alternative explaination that you will not like.

Maybe we were removing the proverbal fences all the time and are about to learn the hard way to put them back.

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1. bondarchuk ◴[12 Dec 25 19:08 UTC] No.46247547[source]▶
That explanation would only hold water if we were dealing right now with all kinds of problems stemming from lack of authoritarianism and too much freedom. I'm not really seeing it but maybe you have something in mind.
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2. Muromec ◴[12 Dec 25 19:32 UTC] No.46247805[source]▶
At least some people believe we do and vote for it. I'm not among those people and I don't hold this position, but somehow it gets more and more support lately.
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3. bondarchuk ◴[12 Dec 25 20:22 UTC] No.46248404[source]▶
"about to learn the hard way to put them back" would seem to imply you expect some real consequences from the lack of "fences".