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How is protecting your borders, a military base, etc oppressive? Yes, the technology could be repurposed for nefarious uses, but so can just about every other

How is protecting your borders, a military base, etc oppressive? Yes, the technology could be repurposed for nefarious uses, but so can just about every other technology. Machine learning, for example, probably has some excellent military applications.

kabdib 9y ago
Ask people who lived in East Germany during the Cold War. A wall can keep people in just as easily as it can keep people out.
- melling 9y ago
  Looks like it was quite easy to get over the Berlin Wall: http://www.ibtimes.com/how-berlin-wall-fell-two-reporters-recall-german-announcement-25-years-later-1720793 http://www.ibtimes.com/how-berlin-wall-fell-two-reporters-re... The guards with guns were the real impediment. At any rate, we are discussing surveillance technology, not a wall. And it has nothing to do with Americans legally leaving the US.
  - kabdib 9y ago
    ... yet
    - melling 9y ago
      Ah, right... That old scare mongering tactic. "We can't do blah, blah, bah, ... yet." Technology is always advancing, in fact at an increasing rate, whether you like it or not. Trying to scare people about the technology is not the answer.
- mcmacintosh 9y ago
  Oh, c'mon. There's plenty of difference between having border control and an insular totalitarian regime. You don't see any difference in the comparison?