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.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.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.Depressing.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.