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> And before email we had mail, handled directly by the government, although reading mail is more difficult without leaving traces.

At least in my country, there has been serious laws protecting the users from police opening letters (1962:700; Postlagens tystnadsplikt). This was changed in January 2023 because people exploited it to send drugs thru post office [1].

Of course without any protests in Sweden because again people don't realize their rights to privacy are taken away from them.

1: https://www.svenskhandel.se/nyheter/nyhet/lagandring-ger-moj...

>>0point+(OP)
I'm increasingly annoyed by the extent at which our state (Sweden, EU) is willing to sacrifice our rights to hinder the usage of recreational drugs by a minority of the population. How can it be that alcohol is endorsed so widely, given that we know many of the drugs we are being sacrificed to stop are safer, less addictive and less potent [1]? It's perhaps cynical to ask, but are we protecting the citizens, or the alcohol industry?

1: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_harm_asse...

>>poly2i+Wv
Sweden is a nanny state. Can't buy booze on Sundays and the government shop's are only open 5 hours on Saturday.

Yet I can go to certain neighborhoods in Stockholm and get pretty much every thing under the sun and that's open 24/7.