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If you treat the whole country as a battleground and the people as the enemy, don't then ask those same people to pretend you aren't hostile The moral high gro
by ENGNR 8y ago
If you treat the whole country as a battleground and the people as the enemy, don't then ask those same people to pretend you aren't hostile
The moral high ground was lost once mass surveillance with no judicial oversight started. It's not Silicon Valley's problem that the current establishment has a bad reputation and can't poach engineers
- hedora 8y agoYou alredy said it better than I can, but anecdotally, when I stopped counting 5+ years ago, my license plate / id was being logged by the government at least three times each way to and from work. Since then, my friends and I have been victims of numerous property crimes that could be solved with a database query or two over those logs, but they’re not available to the people that investigate crimes, apparently. On the other hand, I can name all sorts of ways technology is used to shake people down for committing victimless crimes...