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We are moving towards minority report. These powerful tools are great, but in the hands of a Tyrant when that day comes (not if), it will come, it will be very

• crowtoe76 7y ago
  The day is upon us. I'm sure there are many HN readers here now who are actively working to build the open prison system that is America, because of money, power, NDAs, National Security, lies. Basically the only place I find "dissent" is in internet forums, which amounts to some high-falutin hot air being flung around, the same thing we've been doing for years. Most anyone who cares is too scared to do anything, because the government readily destroys any problematic individual or group. As an individual, you are powerless. If you group, they will know. That it's now fashionable to install always-on microphones in people's homes, that we carry always-on cell phones broadcasting our information wherever we go, that the streets and skies are covered in cameras and sensors watching our every movement, yet we mill about with casual disregard for the implications, gives me little hope that, as citizens, we could ever collectively wake up or rise up. We are taught fear and hate and division. If we should ever forget, they'll remind us by writing messages with our blood. We point fingers at a bumbling scapegoat sitting in a temporary seat, while the real power lies off-camera.