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> Anonymity in meatspace is arguably a dead issue. ...until surveillance capitalism hurts democracy enough that people start rioting.
by eeZah7Ux 7y ago
> Anonymity in meatspace is arguably a dead issue.
...until surveillance capitalism hurts democracy enough that people start rioting.
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- toss1 7y agoTrue, but at that point, it is probably too late until the surveillance biz/govt system collapses and a new one can be built
- anigbrowl 7y agountil the surveillance biz/govt system collapses Absent opposition there's no particular pressure on it that would result in collapse. Sure, the inherent contradictions would lead to malaise, economic recession, and depression, but those are fairly normal parts of the political cycle that are easily spun and can always be blamed on a politically impotent minority or stock antagonist.
- toss1 7y agoYes Eventually, the internal contradictions make it unsustainable. Before that point, resistance is essentially futile, and the regular dysfunction cycles can be swept under the rug, and resisters imprisoned or deleted. At the point where it becomes unsustainable, resistance becomes successful. Of course, resistance needs to be maintained through the futile years/decades/centuries, and at massive cost, so that it is there at the point when it is needed.