IRL benevolent dictatorships will wreck and ruin things, I guess the internet is okay to do such experiments since people are not actually getting hurt, plus this being a voluntary platform. But one exceptional example is with Singapore, it is dictatorship done right lol (although i dont agree with powerful, centralised states)
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Singapore just doesn’t fit the world’s categories. It’s a dictatorship with free speech, no fear, and no corruption. It’s an economy that uses capitalist means to attain socialist ends. Singapore University scholars call it a “meritocratic, elitist, Confucianist, bureaucratic state”.
Yes it's pretty special! Although I do feel a sense of dread whenever I'm hanging out in that country. About free-speech.. not really. There was this kid who's getting lots of crap from the government from talking down on the leaders. And he was only 15/16 when it all started.
http://mothership.sg/2017/03/amos-yee-said-he-is-scared-of-returning-to-spore-if-us-asylum-bid-fails/
I agree about the sense of dread. Anti-social behaviour is not permitted in Singapore. The fine for littering is $250. Jaywalking, spitting, and smoking in government offices are also fined $250. Gambling, except for the state lottery, is illegal. The punishment for drug trafficking is death. SCARY!!
P.S. I'm surprised the #singapore tag is not bigger on Steemit as a result!
P.S. Whatever you call it, by all appearances and measures it works astoundingly well — so far, anyway.
Attention all Kantians! Prepare to enter the Matrix mind of Steemit!!
https://steemit.com/philosophy/@mindhunter/benevolent-dictatorship-is-never-the-answer-a-philosophical-look-into-the-whale-experiment-and-the-heart-of-steemit