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The judiciary is part of the goverment and as you can see in the letters from China and Russia the Goverment is asking GitHub to takedown repos referencing laws
by komarrian 7y ago
The judiciary is part of the goverment and as you can see in the letters from China and Russia the Goverment is asking GitHub to takedown repos referencing laws too. That does not make said laws moral or just.
- Arkhaine_kupo 7y agoYes the analogy is perfectly sound. Spain one of the countries with the highest score in index of democracy, with a recent constitution, with separation of power is completely the same as the plutocracy born of the post soviet collapse of russia and the authoritarian pooh regime of china.
- squiggleblaz 7y agoI'm not aware of any index which considers Spain to be in the highest score (e.g. in the Democracy Index, it gets 8.08). If you think the age of the constitution means anything at all, then I am scared. Countries that do well, like Norway or Australia, have old constitutions — it means they have practice. Some good, safe democracies, like New Zealand, don't even have a constitution at all. Most of the remainder have constitutions that are old but have been comparatively recently re-enacted to make some superficial change here or there. (In the top ten, Iceland, Finnland and Ireland are probably the countries with the genuinely youngest constitutions.) And anyone who has seen the Spanish handling of this situation, who thinks that Spain has separation of power, deserves the completely abandonment of the rule of law that is just around the corner.