> Sounds like we are turning our entire website infrastructure into a 1984 monitoring system It already is one for all intents purposes, just not one that is u

> Sounds like we are turning our entire website infrastructure into a 1984 monitoring system It already is one for all intents purposes, just not one that is used ubiquitously (except in the sense of getting us to buy stuff). All that is changing is that the panopticon is becoming slightly more explicit than implicit, making it that much easier to (eventually) flip a policy switch that designates groups wholesale as "enemies of the people" requiring active scrutiny and interference. I'm reminded of this cartoon: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x2BP9Xd7xfo/T7bvuweLPfI/AAAAAAAACjQ/SPcXLcudnIY/s1600/Internet+Wrapped.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-x2BP9Xd7xfo/T7bvuweLPfI/AAAAAAAACj... Twenty years later and it is still fresh as a daisy.