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We as a society are still experimenting with new new-found toys like this in a lawless territory. Similar to how car-traffic was largely unregulated until we re
by stareatgoats 7y ago
We as a society are still experimenting with new new-found toys like this in a lawless territory. Similar to how car-traffic was largely unregulated until we realized that traffic rules are really necessary.
It is not clear how this will play out though. Is it even possible to hope for a state that doesn't spy on its citizens? I'm not so sure anymore (thanks, all you f-g terrorists). Maybe our struggle has to be to regulate and enforce how the spying is done, and used, and live with the fact that it can be abused before it is corrected.
If anyone has a clear view of how such pessimism might be wrong I'll be happy to hear it.
- BLKNSLVR 7y agoThe terrorists didn't script the reaction of politicians or the people that voted for them. Or if they did, then they've done a grand and thorough job of destroying the freedoms of the West that they find so offensive.
- bamboozled 7y agoWhy are governments so interested in spying on citizens ? What’s the real motive ?
- loraa 7y agoBecause a leftist government knows what is better for you than you do. Sometimes you will need to be monitored so you can keep in line.
- loraa 7y agoIf you piece together everything happening in the world and NOT cheer on your political party, it seems like the crazy conspiracy people, gun nuts, and those outside of the box type thinkers have a point. We are being divided and then being asked to restrict other people's freedom because we don't understand it.
- pixl97 7y agoLots of reasons. Catching tax evasion. Stopping crime. Preventing themselves from getting overthrown by their own citizens. The problem is there are good and bad reasons, but even the good reasons will be corrupted by bad people.
- mondoshawan 7y agoThe same motive it has always been: power, control, and dominion over man.
- quotemstr 7y ago> Similar to how car-traffic was largely unregulated until we realized that traffic rules are really necessary Sure. And then we over-reacted by passing laws limiting cars to the speed of a horse. I'm much more worried about that kind of kneejerk regulation than I am about the actual supposed privacy problem.
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- perl4ever 7y agoYou're more worried because a century later, cars are still limited to the speed of a horse, and this has obviously stunted the economy?