BBC uses RIPA terrorism laws to catch TV licence fee dodgers in Northern Ireland
Let us pause for a second an think what could possibly happen with anti-terrorism laws like this in not-so-advanced democracies where there is little protection of the average citizen from the abuse of state power.<p>Let us also think about how the leading democracies export the "democratic software" (laws) and they get copied/cited in not-so-advanced democracies in making their own laws. It is very easy for a barely-democratic state to cite a western democracy's law as a precedence.<p>Let us then think about how many people live under democratic laws (and under strong rule of law) and compare that to the number of people without that.<p>Depressing.<p>I fear that these badly written anti-terrorism laws are like software flaws that will flow from system to system and harm many more people than we can see right now.