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Completely agree. Crazier question: what’s wrong with a well-intentioned surveillance state? Preventing crime is a noble goal, and sometimes I just don’t think
by _jab 8mo ago
Completely agree.
Crazier question: what’s wrong with a well-intentioned surveillance state? Preventing crime is a noble goal, and sometimes I just don’t think some vague notion of privacy is more important than that.
I sometimes feel that the tech community would find the above opinion far more outlandish than the general population would.
- B1FIDO 8mo ago> what’s wrong with a well-intentioned surveillance state? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_of_Desire tl;dw: A well-intentioned surveillance state may, in fact, love the beings they are surveilling. They may fall in love so deeply, that they want to become like us. I know it's a revolutionary concept.
- gopher_space 8mo agoThere’s nothing inherently wrong with the panopticon. Your society is what makes it good or evil.