Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Why Can't I Vote Online?" video.

@a7699aaa Estonia used to lag behind Europe but they have improved a lot in recent years. Finland was the most advanced country in the 2000's but has been falling since (as a Finn, that is very typical behavior for Finland: once Finland has been declared the best in some catogory, Finns stop paying attention to that thing and focus on something else, and the thing that used to be best starts to detoriate). Just look at PISA 2003 vs PISA 2022 educational survey results to see the difference! It remains to be seen if Estonia can keep up their educational system or if they will follow the path Finland executed.
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@SoPeter216 Freedom of speech is about ability to share ideas and critique of ideas openly. It's not an open invitation to start attacks against specific people. Tommy Robinson attacked verbally Jamal Hijazi, got a court decision that would have required him to stop attacking but he choose to continue the attack anyway. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If Tommy Robinson had criticized the politics related to Jamal Hijazi instead of person, there would have been no problem. Also, claiming non-true things while attacking a person verbally doesn't improve your odds in court. Robinson accused Hijazi of violent behavior against English students at his school. The accusations were found to be false in court and in the end Robinson was ordered to pay £100,000 in damages and cover legal costs. Spreading non-true defamatory statements about individuals results in heavy penalties in most countries for a good reason. Do you have any other examples in mind?
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@SoPeter216 As long as you can publicly use freedom of speech and still keep your freedom, things are pretty good. Russia and Belarus are examples of places where you cannot safely use freedom of speech publicly. US, Germany, France and UK are still places where you can publicly disagree with any decision made by the current leaders and can publicly suggest alternative solutions without risking to be thrown into a prison.
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@HELLO7657 Which part do you think was lying? Do you think some of the countries I listed wouldn't allow freedom of speech?
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2:56 Looking at those stats as a Finn, it's pretty safe to say that Uruguay and Turkey probably stuff extra ballots into the votes because it makes no sense to have such high voter turnouts in reality. And I would also susped Peru, Indonesia and Argentina results for the same reasons but those are borderline believable because it's close to number for Sweden where 80% is definitely believable. And that list is missing Russia which typically has official numbers around 90%, too, for exactly the same reasons.
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10:55 Successful DDoS attack should cause 500 or 503 error, not 404 error for a web service.
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As an European, I love to watch things like this to understand failed examples around the world so we might be able to avoid repeating already failed experiments. Those that fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it.
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Voting multiple times still cannot prevent attacks via the digital counting system. If you cannot make votes inspectable by the voter (which cannot be allowed if you think your citizens might be physically threated if they "voted incorrectly", coersion with other words) then every voter must blindly trust the system to collect and count all votes accurately. All digital systems are vulnerable to supply chain attacks and nation level attackers with big budgets can do surprisingly elaborate attacks. If you can make votes public (that is, open voting) and everybody can check the votes of everybody, then everybody can run their own software to validate the voting results and they can also verify that their own vote has been collected correctly in the public database.
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