slothrop@lemmy.ca to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 24 days agoJudge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will complyarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up1378arrow-down10
arrow-up1378arrow-down1external-linkJudge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will complyarstechnica.comslothrop@lemmy.ca to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 24 days agomessage-square44linkfedilink
minus-squareTharkys@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up139·24 days agoThe US government doesn’t comply with it’s own rulings. Why would anyone else?
minus-squareSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·23 days agoBecause they’re the ones with the monopoly on violence. Might makes right for those brutes.
minus-squarewillington@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·23 days agoNobody has a monopoly on violence. Might does not make right. But might does make policy. The good people need wisdom and might, both. Then we will set policy and it won’t suck. The world has to work for all its denizens and not just for the “top” (only in some sense, not in every sense) 0.01%. I don’t want to build a gallows from which I myself will be hanged. I am not a masochist. I don’t hate myself.
minus-squarefor_some_delta@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·23 days agoThe term describes a material condition. State police forces exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
minus-squarewillington@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·22 days agoMy point is that what you are saying is simply a convention that for most of us made sense for a long time. I contend there do exist conditions under which that convention goes away. And at bottom we are all capable of violence.
The US government doesn’t comply with it’s own rulings. Why would anyone else?
Because they’re the ones with the monopoly on violence. Might makes right for those brutes.
Nobody has a monopoly on violence.
Might does not make right. But might does make policy.
The good people need wisdom and might, both. Then we will set policy and it won’t suck.
The world has to work for all its denizens and not just for the “top” (only in some sense, not in every sense) 0.01%.
I don’t want to build a gallows from which I myself will be hanged. I am not a masochist. I don’t hate myself.
The term describes a material condition. State police forces exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
My point is that what you are saying is simply a convention that for most of us made sense for a long time.
I contend there do exist conditions under which that convention goes away. And at bottom we are all capable of violence.