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[–]jet199 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

In some countries they'd drag those people out of their houses and kill them in the street. Those would be the kind of countries which do that kind of thing already.

In the West are more civilised do we'd have a 25 year long public inquiry which most people will forget about and the offenders would get away with it, many dying peacefully in their bed before any charges are even thought about. Then the inquiry would find its all the fault of evil systemic something or other which sounds good but it actually means no individuals can be called to account.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some of them would be killed by vigilantes or vigilante groups, for certain.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

We've even had that in the UK. They managed to attack a paediatrician because they were to stupid to know the difference.

[–]dissidentrhetoric 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They would continue voting for the satanic bastards and call it a conspiracy theory.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Denial.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it would be mixed between outright denial and outright rebellion. It would be a war against "conspiracy theorists" but the "conspiracy theorists" would have lots of regular seeming folk on their side. I still think most would respond with denial, like you say.

[–]369 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What makes you think they might do something like that?

[–]cant_even 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The 'releasers' would be prosecuted. A "Cyberterror Privacy Act" would be passed which:
1. Wouldn't have prevented the original acts
2. Diminishes freedom for the 'proles'
3. Establishes a new government agency