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There is a perfectly plausible way to implement all the things we want, without all the surveillance. The surveillance is not necessary, and by and large isn't
by rdancer 11y ago
There is a perfectly plausible way to implement all the things we want, without all the surveillance. The surveillance is not necessary, and by and large isn't even incidental, to the good parts we want.
And even if you forgo your own personal spy device, all of the other mobile, stationary, and airborne devices will make up for the hole, mostly. Choice doesn't really come into it.
- varjag 11y agoMy mom still says "not over the phone" when discussing any sensitive subject, in 2015. She learned this trait from my grandmother. Now grandma wasn't an anti-communist or dissident: she was a Party member and a WW2 vet. She was for world peace and for victory of Communism worldwide. This was just basic communication hygiene routine, one of the many, you had to do in USSR to stay alive and well. People doing it didn't even think it was wrong, it was as natural as washing your hands after taking a dump. You guys thinking that the West outdid 1984 just because there are DPI switches around are making me cringe.