Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

• stembolts@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s a quote of an opinion, so in general I ignore them. I’m usually more interested in distilling ideas.

  But I guess we can look at this one. Find it’s essence. Tho it doesn’t seem very deep…

  “Societies with rule of law are dictatorships. How leaders are selected and the existence of fundamental Constitutional rights is not a factor.”

  So in short.

  Having laws at all is a dictatorship.

  Yeah, that is one of the opinions I’d ignore. It’s easy to have that opinion inside the walls of a lawed society.

  Luckily it is valid to respond to an opinion with an opinion, and mine is that I imagine everyone (except the strongest with the most resources) would abandon that perspective as soon as they lived in a world with no laws.

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