On: Plausibly deniable encryption (2020)

[fennecfoxen]

I'm quite curious: who counts as 'civilized' these days? Clearly not the UAE (we've just seen an article on Dubai debtors prisons on these pages) but it seems we'd need to take Japan off the list, for instance (see e.g. https://www.economist.com/asia/2015/12/03/silent-screams ) and if we have to take them off the list I'm not sure where we end up stopping

[Lio → fennecfoxen]

The Netherland seems like a good bet.

I look with envy at how they do a lot of things.

[eyelidlessness → Lio]

Apart from the pissing contest of who has a better penal system, can anyone in this discussion show that there’s a system to imprison people which parts people with their strongly held moral beliefs and should do so?