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Authoritarianism Doesn't Arrive With A Coup... It Arrives With A Login
Authoritarianism Doesn't Arrive With A Coup... It Arrives With A Login
Authored by Sam Lowry via dailysceptic.org,
Authoritarianism doesn’t usually arrive with a coup. It arrives with a login, a compliance form, a penalty notice for keeping records in the wrong format. It comes with a quietly extended electoral term, a cancelled bank account, a prison sentence for a social media post. Each measure has a reasonable-sounding justification. The problem is the direction — and how far it has already travelled.
Power is migrating from the visible arena of democratic politics to the...
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