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Modern surveillance capitalism is at its core a very libertarian thing because libertarians believe there should be no regulation about what data companies can
by Jon_Lowtek 6y ago
Modern surveillance capitalism is at its core a very libertarian thing because libertarians believe there should be no regulation about what data companies can collect and how they process it. There is a difference between mass surveillance and law enforcement.
- onething 6y ago>...libertarians believe there should be no regulation about what data companies can collect and how they process it. Such an overly broad statement is wrong. The libertarian position is more nuanced than that with people (at least in their minds) generally trying to balance privacy without hurting innovation. See for example https://www.libertarianism.org/building-tomorrow/protecting-data-Privacy-without-destroying-the-internet https://www.libertarianism.org/building-tomorrow/protecting-... >...There is a difference between mass surveillance and law enforcement. There is a difference between Facebook collecting data about its users and Homeland Security/FBI/NSA/etc etc collecting data about citizens exercising their constitutional rights. The original context here was >...But if it gets deployed against George Floyd protestors... Ehhh... nbd) Mass surveillance by the government is a big deal to libertarians and always has been.