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The Electronic Police State

gerddie writes "Cryptohippie has published what may be called a first attempt to describe the 'electronic police state' (PDF). Based on information available from different organizations such as Electronic Privacy Information Center, Reporters Without Borders, and Freedom House, countries were rated on 17 criteria with regard to how close they are already to an electronic police state. The rankings are for 2008. Not too surprisingly, one finds China, North Korea, Belarus, and Russia at the top of the list. But the next slots are occupied by the UK (England and Wales), the US, Singapore, Israel, France, and Germany." This is a good start, but it would be good to see details of their methodology. They do provide the raw data (in XLS format), but no indication of the weightings they apply to the elements of "electronic police state" behavior they are scoring.

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  1. Re:China != Hong Kong by heil_hitler_4_life · · Score: 0, Troll

    You know why China needs to be like that? Remember the Boxer Union? Where the Brits, paired up with the Rothschild Jewish fags, open up the East Indies Company, and forced opium into China? China resisted. Opium war and millions of civilian causalities were what they get for resisting opium being sold in China. Now the white man and the Jews are having trouble entering China. So they make these reports trying to invade by pretending to be "humanitarian". Fuck amnesty international and all those fags, you will never invade our motherland again! No more Opium war! No more divided China! HEIL HITLER! SIEG HEIL!