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The person indeed had done something wrong, technology just helped here to catch him more quickly

• noxToken 9y ago
  So everyone else is force into being surveilled as well? In the US military, there are health and comfort inspections. They have a legitimate use: inspect the living quarters on base to ensure that personnel are living in safe, habitable conditions. That's not what they're used for. Word had passed that there was a small Rx drug ring in the barracks. Why search only the accused rooms when you can search the entirety of the barracks all at once. I didn't have any contraband in my room. I don't think I ever had any contraband. Did that matter? Nope. Sometime between 5 and 6 AM, we were all made to unlock all of our drawers and cabinets, exit our rooms immediately, and wait. If you didn't unlock something, they'd cut the locks with bolt cutters. You'd return to a room that was absolutely ransacked. Seriously - it looked like a thief was quickly sprinting from room to room tossing everything in sight while hoping to find a hidden stash of jewels. Sounds a bit far-fetched for the general public right? Hardly! This is the same thing as a summary no-knock warrant.
• chillingeffect 9y ago
  That's the trick: to sway your attention to the good without considering the bad. The bad here is scope creep of the surveillance network, particularly in a totalitarian regime. But once you've acquiesced to the "good" parts of it, you will rationalize the bad parts unless you think critically.
  • sundvor 9y ago
    Exactly. Thanks for finishing the unspoken part of my (Integral, Pet Shop Boys) quote.