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Culture is opposed to it. Hollywood movies and TV shows generally portray mass surveillance as a tool of oppression or as a last resort (The Dark Knight).
by mLuby 8y ago
Culture is opposed to it. Hollywood movies and TV shows generally portray mass surveillance as a tool of oppression or as a last resort (The Dark Knight).
- nickpsecurity 8y agoI see the opposite: all the cop and terrorist shows have them stopping lots of big threats through their databases and/or ignoring the law (eg illegal searches). That's most of them my friends and family watch. You don't see a lot of them where they're constantly talking about how some terrorist is an incompetent idiot, the bosses want terrorist arrests in the paper, they need to motivate them to confess on video for an arrest, maybe supply them some weapons/training, and some guy gets paid $100,000 to do that. And then they do that a bunch more times hyping up the threat. Or just police work respecting Constitutional rights catching bad folks since most are sloppy with fictional Congress, cops and courts shooting down things like Patriot Act. Nah, it's stuff that reinforces what the government is doing or shows problems that wouldn't lead to rebellion. Pretty consistently. Especially the one or two episodes of Person of Interest I saw.