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Okay, sure.
> and internet shutdown is perfectly justified
This doesn't seem to obviously follow. Can you explain the justification?
The opportunity for you to explain it is an opportunity to exonerate your point of view. You don't have to take it.
Not in good faith then. Just as I thought.
You are essentially saying “The enemies of a government seek to undermine it so let’s stop people from talking to each other.”
I mean how is that logic different from what Stalin did during the Soviet Union? “The capitalists want to overthrow us, let’s deploy the totalitarian surveillance state to control and monitor the people to stop them from rising up”.
And how is any of this logic compatible with democracy or human liberty?
Wanted to let you know you're arguing with a Russian troll, the type you hear about in the news.
It is Orwellian because in George Orwell’s novel 1984 the 3 governments remaining in the world are at war with each other and each government uses the threat of the others for total surveillance and suppression of their own populations.