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* The Stasi were terrifying enough in a non-networked age - with smartphones, facebook, etc. they'll have so much more data on us. * IMHO the political climate
by crdoconnor 10y ago
* The Stasi were terrifying enough in a non-networked age - with smartphones, facebook, etc. they'll have so much more data on us.
* IMHO the political climate we live in could easily produce another Stasi within a generation.
* If that we get something like that again they'll have a decade or more information on you, and information you are leaking right now could be used to coerce, blackmail and threaten you.
- lmm 10y agoDoes accuracy of information really make a difference there? The Stasi were terrifying because they had no accountability - you could be taken away in the middle of the night on a whim, or because a disgruntled neighbour had accused you of treason. A Stasi who had accurate information about who was opposing the state would in some ways have been less terrible.