Downvotes are probably the worst feature of reddit-like platforms. I hope you at least consider what I’ve said, I think you’re misconstruing my point. I don’t want a witch hunt. I agree that bureaucracy can be hellish. But I would like to hear less cliché criticism of bureaucrats at large and more specific criticisms that are fair, have logical actions to take, and aren’t slandering an entire profession. Is that broad painting of a whole profession not similar in spirit to a witch hunt? Anyway, have a good day.

Well, he is speaking the same language. Paraphrasing, he says “they are bureaucrats who don’t understand business,” as if removing the bureaucrats will solve his problem. Throw in business owners instead of bureaucrats and you will have the same laws being proposed as soon as their profits are threatened. If he would have stopped speaking before that point, I would mostly agree with him. Switzerland has an advantage in privacy laws, and they are throwing it away. It’s also worth noting that he is phrasing all of this in terms of revenue and expenses, as if he doesn’t believe the fundamental right to privacy will make a strong argument to his audience. That is the real problem here, thinking we can just treat everything like a business.

Trump has been going after the deep state and saying drain the swamp since 2015 or so. Really this just means eliminate the bureaucracy and replace it with loyalists and corporatists. Step 1 to that process is sowing doubt on the bureaucracy. I’m not saying that it should be illegal to criticize bureaucrats.

Voting trump into power so he can gut your administration is also a fundamental right of democracy, I’m just saying he careful with that type of rhetoric

I’m just saying, people have been claiming our warnings are “stretches” for the past 10 years here in the US, and look where we are now

Edit: if you want to criticize bureaucracy, be specific. Don’t just slander bureaucracy as a whole because they’re lazy or something. It breeds anti-intellectualism