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I guess that makes sense but if you take into account technological capabilities then the next overreach will almost always be the biggest because the technolog

I guess that makes sense but if you take into account technological capabilities then the next overreach will almost always be the biggest because the technology makes larger and larger scale possible.

Mirioron 7y ago
And this is why we need to care more and more about this issue as a society.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  True. With current and soon to be tech we can build surveillance much more pervasive than what the book 1984 describes. It feels like it’s almost inevitable for this to happen.
  - AndrewBissell 7y ago
    It's only "inevitable" because so many people are proscribing the boundaries of political and legislative action on the issue by discussing it with this sense of fatalistic unavoidability. The mere existence of this technology does not imply that the NSA & CIA have to construct a massive data center in Utah which stores all internet traffic forever -- that is a political choice.