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> So its okay for people to leak addresses of politicians and call on other to kill them?

To leak their addresses? Yes. To call on killing them? No.

Knowing where your elected (and/or unelected) officials live is very useful for civic purposes. It helps to identify various forms of corruption.

Case in point: when I lived in Finland, our local municipality had 6 snowploughs. Only five of them were ever really in used for clearing out roads. During the long winters, the last one was essentially parked, with a person inside, next to a particular neighbourhood. It only cleared out the roads in that neighbourhood, and the roads directly connecting to it. That neighbourhood housed the chair and two other members of the town council.

Being able to associate uneven allocation of public funds and the home addresses of those deciding how the allocation is done is useful, and I claim, even necessary.



> To leak their addresses? Yes.

Privacy is a human right, leaking someone address is not ok, and doing so is illegal in Germany because of privacy rights.

Ironically, this is also why it would be illegal in Germany for the government to "close" Telegram.

However, there are many other laws that must be obeyed, and Telegram doesn't obey most of them in Germany, so it can be closed due to those issues.


While I agree that privacy is a human right, I only grant that right to individuals. The moment you enter politics, you SHOULD lose your privacy.

When you enter politics, you are either doing that to defraud people, or planning to do so at the first opportunity.




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