no, if you include anybody in the World, you are back at 7B
The point was that you contradicted yourself: if 3B people use the internet (as you said) only 3B people are in danger of being spied through the internet.
> I don't really care if your system of choosing leaders is democratic elections
Unfortunately the dictionary does.
And one does not imply the other, I mean it's one thing to have cameras in the streets for (allegedly) safety purpose and another thing entirely to be hanged from a crane if you're gay.
Let's not pretend that everything is the same everywhere just because we don't like or agree with a particular aspect of what happens in our own country.
I think you meant to reply to someone else, I said nothing about the internet only that the math of
"5B people live under authoritarian regimes."
"Actually it's only 1.9B if you use my definition of authoritarian, the rest are just authoritarian behaviors."
Okay so to everyone but you 5B live under authoritarian regimes then -- "Not technically authoritarianism" is not something you should feel the need to say about countries you're arguing aren't authoritarian.
> another thing entirely to be hanged from a crane if you're gay
I know right, we're so much more civilized. We just lock them up if they do gay stuff in public, require sexual education to teach that homosexuality is an "unacceptable lifestyle choice", define consensual sex between two homosexual teenagers as rape, and and have a standing legal theory that people just can't help it if they are thrown into a blind rage and attack a gay person for being gay that in 2023 is still a legal defense in 33 states. And that's just the gays, the political punching bag de jour is trans people and they get it even worse.
no, if you include anybody in the World, you are back at 7B
The point was that you contradicted yourself: if 3B people use the internet (as you said) only 3B people are in danger of being spied through the internet.
> I don't really care if your system of choosing leaders is democratic elections
Unfortunately the dictionary does.
And one does not imply the other, I mean it's one thing to have cameras in the streets for (allegedly) safety purpose and another thing entirely to be hanged from a crane if you're gay.
Let's not pretend that everything is the same everywhere just because we don't like or agree with a particular aspect of what happens in our own country.