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Fuck off with hyperbolic mouth-frothing; in the novel 1984, the government cameras were in your house. Even China and the UK haven't done that yet, nor are the
by veidr 11y ago
Fuck off with hyperbolic mouth-frothing; in the novel 1984, the government cameras were in your house.
Even China and the UK haven't done that yet, nor are they close to it.
- mattgibson 11y agoOh, really? http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/462230/Edward-Snowden-revelations-GCHQ-harvested-webcam-pics-including-sexual-material http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/462230/Edward-Snowden-re...
- veidr 11y agoYes, really. That the government is hacking private webcams en masse is a flagrant criminal act. The collusion of purported democratic governments to do this kind of thing is a threat to the rule of law itself. It's a very serious problem, and absurd, over-the-top exaggeration doesn't help. Like when people say, "Working at McDonald's is slavery!" No, it isn't. Actual slavery is a whole different level of badness. Obviously. And along those same lines, odious though it is, government spies hacking your webcam to see your dick pics is not as bad as the government installing mandatory government cameras inside the homes of all citizens. Obviously. So I don't think Cannataci is helping with this kind of hyperbolic statement. It could reasonably be argued that government surveillance in the UK and the US today is worse than it was in East Germany and the USSR -- and that's very alarming. The notion it's as bad as the fictional dystopia of 1984 is absurd and unhelpful.
- sillygeese 11y agoLiving in Denial? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2014/12/16/the-elf-on-the-shelf-is-preparing-your-child-to-live-in-a-future-police-state-professor-says/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2014/12/16... http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-toward-forty/2013/11/elf-on-the-shelf-nsa-santa/ http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-toward-forty/2013/11/elf-o... "Smart" TVs, and most of the "Internet of Things" stuff is all about monitoring us. XBox's Kinect is in the mix too. And they're just brazenly telling us through the mainstream media. Again, they're acclimating us to being aware that we're surveilled all the time.
- jacobwcarlson 11y agoYou realize that article by Kim Dale is satire, right?
- sillygeese 11y agoYou realize I was responding to a comment, right?
- cryoshon 11y agoCameras only see what your body is doing. With internet surveillance, they can see what you're thinking about to an extent.