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The UN Cybercrime Convention is particularly troublin when you consider that countries like China and Russia are signatories. These regimes already criminalize dissent and journalism, and now they have a formal mechanism to request data from other nations on their critics abroad. The vague definition of serious crime coupled with mandatory cooperation basicaly turns this into a backdoor extradition treaty without proper safeguards. Its alarming how quickly these powers expand once legitimized, similar to what happened in France after th Paris attacks.
The UN Cybercrime Convention is particularly troublin when you consider that countries like China and Russia are signatories. These regimes already criminalize dissent and journalism, and now they have a formal mechanism to request data from other nations on their critics abroad. The vague definition of serious crime coupled with mandatory cooperation basicaly turns this into a backdoor extradition treaty without proper safeguards. Its alarming how quickly these powers expand once legitimized, similar to what happened in France after th Paris attacks.
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