<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kypro</author><text>The default state (and almost universal state) of human societies throughout history has been authoritarianism.&lt;p&gt;Authoritarian&amp;#x27;s universally believe individuals left to themselves make bad decisions either because they&amp;#x27;re too stupid or too cruel so we need benevolent leaders like themselves to order society.&lt;p&gt;Only in the last few hundred years countries in Western Europe began to reject this and accept while some individuals may make bad decisions the cost of &amp;quot;benevolent&amp;quot; leaders is too great.&lt;p&gt;Today in the West we seem to be forgetting that freedom comes with costs and this can only lead in one direction. We should understand China isn&amp;#x27;t the exception, they are the norm. It was in fact the West who was always more likely to revert to the mean than for China to embrace freedom. People like Orwell understood this very well.&lt;p&gt;The more freedom individuals have the more likely individuals will say and do things leaders don&amp;#x27;t like and if our leaders no longer celebrate this disagreement as progress they will seek to restrict freedom. Of course, some actions are almost universally seen as bad and in these cases it&amp;#x27;s worth carefully restricting freedoms, but this clearly isn&amp;#x27;t one of those cases. And most attempts to limit freedom of speech also aren&amp;#x27;t.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thoughty</author><text>Is it me or is there a clear pattern here. Seems like the major governments in the world are creating China-like surveillance under the guise of the trojan horse called CSAM.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xvector</author><text>Surprise surprise, the cypherpunks and crypto-anarchists were right all along, but you&amp;#x27;ll still find people that want to ban technologies like cryptocurrencies and Tor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>thoughty</author><text>Is it me or is there a clear pattern here. Seems like the major governments in the world are creating China-like surveillance under the guise of the trojan horse called CSAM.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>New EU Law Removes Digital Privacy</title><url>https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/</url></story>