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> There is a good chance that government and companies will be the same at some point. Naval Ravikant had a good tweet about this: The distant future is small
by 0x8BADF00D 8y ago
> There is a good chance that government and companies will be the same at some point.
Naval Ravikant had a good tweet about this:
The distant future is small free cities with drone armies and skill-based immigration policies, surrounded by a sea of failed socialist states.[1]
Guess which kinds of states have massive surveillance powers? Socialist ones. By definition you need to surveil your entire population in order to keep track of who gets what payment/government dole. How else would you keep track of it?
[1]https://twitter.com/naval/status/1084724006626840576?s=21 https://twitter.com/naval/status/1084724006626840576?s=21
- renholder 8y ago> Guess which kinds of states have massive surveillance powers? The United States? Last that I checked, it wasn't the socialist states trying to surveil everyone in the known world, with their own citizens chirping, "You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide."
- notacoward 8y agoCorrect. Government surveillance is associated with authoritarianism. The axis between that and democracy is orthogonal to the one between left/communist and right/capitalist. Of the three largest economies, it's the most democratic one that has passed privacy-preserving laws like GDPR while the other two pass surveillance-enabling ones depite being at opposite ends of the left/right spectrum.
- 0x8BADF00D 8y agoCountries in the EU are the most heavily surveilled in the world. Not sure what your point is. GDPR has nothing to do with to government surveillance, it just regulates commerce between private entities that exchange data on the Internet.