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It's not about tomorrow. It's about in X years when violent government oppression on some group or other starts up again. It's not making the assumption that y
by austhrow743 7y ago
It's not about tomorrow. It's about in X years when violent government oppression on some group or other starts up again.
It's not making the assumption that your government is never going to be rounding people up for brainwashing/torture/gassing/etc ever again.
When that happens, all the data these surveillance companies have is going to make the future gestapo downright gleeful.
- criddell 7y agoAnd that gets back to the phone being the absolute goldmine and doorbells and voice assistants barely move the needle.
- austhrow743 7y agoWell sure, phones are a greater evil than doorbell cameras. I'm not disputing that. It's not like you're only allowed to dislike one type of device.
- autoexec 7y agoMcCarthyism 2.0 is going to be a bloodbath. Forget about "six lines written by an honest man" they'll have gigabytes of data in which to find something to hang you for.