When countries like North Korea, which depends on cybercrime to fund itself, are signatories, you have to wonder whether this agreement means what its title says.

They have also had the longest on going embargo on earth right after they were nearly wiped out by a genocidal war on behalf of the US.

I don't doubt their history explains the shape of their economy.

This may seem like I am defending North Korea, but in reality I am putting in perspective who/why they are. Facts which nearly amount propaganda to western nations.

I don't think it's right to blame ordinary North Koreans for the state of their country like that. Clearly it has more to do with the paranoid authoritarianism of 1 guy, rather than the collective war trauma of the people. Just look at South Korea, the other party of that "genocidal war". They moved on a long time ago, because their national politics allowed them to.

The old “think of the children/fight terrorism/support our troops/be a good person” style of naming propositions to destroy data privacy.

Not just data privacy, this is intended to destroy free speech.

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